Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 250 - HOSPITAL LICENSING REQUIREMENTS › Subpart L - RECORDS AND REPORTS › Section 250.1520 - Reports

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) Each hospital
				shall submit reports containing such pertinent data as may reasonably be
				required by the Department to fulfill its responsibilities under the Act and
				this Part.
b) In the reporting of
				communicable disease cases, the hospital shall comply with the Control of
				Communicable Diseases Code.
c) See
				Sections 250.1830 and
				250.1840 regarding reports
				pertaining to mothers and infants, and regarding children to be discharged to a
				person other than a biological parent.
d) See Section
				250.1830 regarding birth, fetal
				death and death reports.
e) The
				death of a pregnant person or the death of a person within one year following
				the termination of that person's pregnancy shall be reported to the Department
				as required by the Department's rules titled Maternal Death Review and in
				Section 250.1830(i)(2).
				This is required regardless of the type of hospital or the reason for the
				patient's admission.
f) Any
				incident or occurrence in a hospital that could be considered a catastrophe or
				creates a potential immediate jeopardy or dangerous threat that requires the
				transfer of patients to other parts of the facility or other facilities,
				including but not limited to fire, flood, or power failure, shall be reported
				to the Department within 24 hours after the occurrence. Reports shall be made
				to the Department via email at: DPH.HospitalReports@illinois.gov.
g) Reporting Opioid Overdoses
1)
As used in this Section, the
				following definitions apply:
"Overdose" - has the same meaning as provided in
				  Section 414 of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. "Health care
				  professional" - a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches,
				  a physician assistant, or an advanced practice registered nurse licensed in
				  Illinois
.
2)
When treatment is provided in a hospital's emergency department, a
				health care professional who treats a drug overdose, hospital administrator,
				or
the
designee
of either
shall report the
				case to the Department of Public Health within 48 hours after providing
				treatment for the drug overdose or at such time the drug overdose is
				confirmed
.
3) The hospital
				shall report to the Department the following information electronically or on
				forms provided by the Department:
A)
Whether an opioid antagonist was administered
and, if yes, the
				name of the antagonist;
B)
The cause of the overdose,
including, but not limited to,
				whether the overdose was caused by an opioid or heroin
;
				and
C)
The
				demographic information of the person treated
. The demographic
				information shall include, but is not limited to, the patient's:
i) Age;
ii) Sex;
iii) Federal Information Process Standards
				county code;
iv) Zip
				code;
v) Race, using the Centers
				for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) race category; and
vi) Ethnicity, using the CDC ethnicity
				group.
4)
The person completing the form
shall
not disclose the
				name, address, or any other personal information of the individual experiencing
				the overdose
.
5)
The identity of the person and
hospital
reporting
				under this subsection
(g)
shall not be disclosed to the subject
				of the report. For the purposes of this subsection
(g),
the
				health care professional, hospital administrator, or designee making the
				report
,
and his or her employer
,
shall not be
				held criminally, civilly, or professionally liable for reporting under this
				subsection
(g)(5)
, except for willful or wanton
				misconduct
. (Section
				6.14 g of the Act)