Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 370 - COMMUNITY LIVING FACILITIES CODE › Subpart N - RESIDENT'S RIGHTS › Section 370.3050 - Communication and Visitation

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a)
				Every resident shall be permitted unimpeded, private and uncensored
				communication of his or her choice by mail, public telephone or
				visitation.
b) The facility program
				coordinator or house manager shall ensure that correspondence is conveniently
				received and mailed, and that telephones are reasonably accessible.
c) The facility program coordinator or house
				manager shall ensure that residents may have private visits at any reasonable
				hour unless such visits are restricted by a physician, clinical psychologist,
				or a Qualified Mental Retardation Professional in order to protect the resident
				or others from harm, harassment or intimidation, and such restriction is
				documented in the resident's clinical record.
d) The facility shall allow daily visiting at
				all reasonable times.
e) The
				facility program coordinator or house manager shall ensure that space for
				visits is available and that facility personnel knock, except in an emergency,
				before entering any resident's room.
f) All residents shall be permitted
				unimpeded, private and uncensored communication by telephone and visitation.
				Such communication may only be restricted by a physician, clinical psychologist
				or Qualified Mental Retardation Professional, in order to reasonably protect
				the resident or others from harm, harassment or intimidation. The reason for
				any restriction shall be placed in the resident's clinical record by the person
				making the restriction.
g) All mail
				addressed to anyone shall be forwarded at once to the persons to whom they are
				addressed without examination by facility personnel. All mail addressed to a
				resident shall be delivered to the resident without examination by facility
				personnel.
h) Any employee or agent
				of a public agency, any representative of a community legal services program or
				any member of a community organization shall be permitted access at reasonable
				hours to any individual resident of any facility, if the purpose of such
				agency, program or organization includes rendering assistance to residents
				without charge, but only if there is neither a commercial purpose nor affect to
				such access and if the purpose is to do any of the following:
1) Visit, talk with and make personal,
				social, and legal services available to all residents;
2) Inform residents of their rights and
				entitlements and their corresponding obligations, under federal and State laws,
				by means of educational materials and discussions in groups and with individual
				residents;
3) Assist residents in
				asserting their legal rights regarding claims for public assistance, medical
				assistance and social security benefits as well as in all other matters in
				which residents are aggrieved. Assistance may include counseling and
				litigation; or
4) Engage in other
				methods of asserting, advising and representing residents so as to extend to
				them full enjoyment of their rights.