Illinois Administrative Code › Title 89 - SOCIAL SERVICES › Part 148 - HOSPITAL SERVICES › Subpart C - SEXUAL ASSAULT EMERGENCY TREATMENT PROGRAM › Section 148.500 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Act" means the Sexual Assault Survivors Emergency Treatment
				  Act [410 ILCS 70 ].
"Ambulance Provider" means an individual or entity that owns
				  and operates a business or service using ambulances or emergency medical
				  services vehicles to transport emergency patients.
"Area-wide Sexual Assault Treatment Plan" means a plan,
				  developed by the hospitals in the community or area to be served, that provides
				  for hospital emergency services to sexual assault survivors that shall be made
				  available by each of the participating hospitals.
"Department" means the Illinois Department of Healthcare and
				  Family Services.
"Emergency Contraception" means medication as approved by the
				  federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that can significantly reduce the
				  risk of pregnancy if taken within 72 hours after sexual assault.
"Follow-up Healthcare" means healthcare services related to a
				  sexual assault, including laboratory services and pharmacy services, rendered
				  within 90 days after the initial visit for hospital emergency services.
"Forensic Services" means the collection of evidence pursuant
				  to a statewide sexual assault evidence collection program administered by the
				  Department of State Police, using the Illinois State Police Sexual Assault
				  Evidence Collection Kit.
"Health Care Professional" means a physician, a physician
				  assistant, or an advanced practice nurse.
"Hospital" means a facility located in Illinois licensed as a
				  hospital by the Department of Public Health pursuant to the Hospital Licensing
				  Act [210 ILCS 85 ] or that meets both the definition of a hospital and the
				  licensure exemption provisions of the Hospital Licensing Act.
"Hospital Emergency Services" means health care delivered to
				  outpatients within or under the care and supervision of personnel working in a
				  designated emergency department of a hospital, including, but not limited to,
				  care ordered by such personnel for a sexual assault survivor in the emergency
				  department.
"Illinois State Police Sexual Assault Evidence Collection
				  Kit" means a prepackaged set of materials and forms to be used for the
				  collection of evidence relating to sexual assault. The standardized evidence
				  collection kit for the State of Illinois shall be the Illinois State Police
				  Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kit.
"Nurse" means a nurse licensed under the Nurse Practice Act
				  [225 ILCS 65 ].
"Physician" means a person licensed to practice medicine in
				  all its branches.
"Sexual Assault" means an act of nonconsensual sexual conduct
				  or sexual penetration, as defined in Section 12-12 of the Criminal Code of 1961
				  [720 ILCS 5 ], including, without limitation, acts prohibited under Sections
				  12-13 through 12-16 of the Criminal Code of 1961.
"Sexual Assault Survivor" means a person who presents for
				  hospital emergency services in relation to injuries or trauma resulting from a
				  sexual assault.
"Sexual Assault Transfer Plan" means a written plan developed
				  by a hospital and approved by the Department of Public Health that describes
				  the hospital's procedures for transferring sexual assault survivors to another
				  hospital in order to receive emergency treatment.
"Sexual Assault Treatment Plan" means a written plan
				  developed by a hospital that describes the hospital's procedures and protocols
				  for providing hospital emergency services and forensic services to sexual
				  assault survivors who present themselves for such services, either directly or
				  through transfer from another hospital.
"Transfer Facility" means a hospital that provides only
				  transfer services to sexual assault survivors, pursuant to 77 Ill. Adm. Code
				  545.
"Transfer Services" means the appropriate medical screening
				  examination and necessary stabilizing treatment prior to the transfer of a
				  sexual assault survivor to a hospital that provides hospital emergency services
				  and forensic services to sexual assault survivors pursuant to a sexual assault
				  treatment plan or area wide sexual assault treatment plan.
"Treatment Facility" means a hospital that renders emergency
				  treatment to sexual assault survivors, pursuant to 77 Ill. Adm. Code
				  545.