HB 5000 — ASSISTED LIVING CATHETER CARE

"Licensed health care professional" means a registered professional nurse, an advanced practice registered nurse, a physician assistant, and a licensed practical nurse.

"Mandatory services" include the following:

(1) 3 meals per day available to the residents prepared by the establishment or an outside contractor;

(2) housekeeping services including, but not limited to, vacuuming, dusting, and cleaning the resident's unit;

(3) personal laundry and linen services available to the residents provided or arranged for by the establishment;

(4) security provided 24 hours each day including, but not limited to, locked entrances or building or contract security personnel;

(5) an emergency communication response system, which is a procedure in place 24 hours each day by which a resident can notify building management, an emergency response vendor, or others able to respond to his or her HB5000 Enrolled - 6 - LRB103 38511 CES 68647 b need for assistance;

and (6) assistance with activities of daily living as required by each resident.

"Negotiated risk" is the process by which a resident, or his or her representative, may formally negotiate with providers what risks each are willing and unwilling to assume in service provision and the resident's living environment.

The provider assures that the resident and the resident's representative, if any, are informed of the risks of these decisions and of the potential consequences of assuming these risks.

"Owner" means the individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other person who owns an assisted living or shared housing establishment.

In the event an assisted living or shared housing establishment is operated by a person who leases or manages the physical plant, which is owned by another person, "owner" means the person who operates the assisted living or shared housing establishment, except that if the person who owns the physical plant is an affiliate of the person who operates the assisted living or shared housing establishment and has significant control over the day to day operations of the assisted living or shared housing establishment, the person who owns the physical plant shall incur jointly and severally with the owner all liabilities imposed on an owner under this Act.

"Physician" means a person licensed under the Medical HB5000 Enrolled - 7 - LRB103 38511 CES 68647 b Practice Act of 1987 to practice medicine in all of its branches.

"Resident" means a person residing in an assisted living or shared housing establishment.

"Resident's representative" means a person, other than the owner, agent, or employee of an establishment or of the health care provider unless related to the resident, designated in writing by a resident to be his or her representative.

This designation may be accomplished through the Illinois Power of Attorney Act, pursuant to the guardianship process under the Probate Act of 1975, or pursuant to an executed designation of representative form specified by the Department.

"Self" means the individual or the individual's designated representative.

"Shared housing establishment" or "establishment" means a publicly or privately operated free-standing residence for 16 or fewer persons, at least 80% of whom are 55 years of age or older and who are unrelated to the owners and one manager of the residence, where the following are provided:

(1) services consistent with a social model that is based on the premise that the resident's unit is his or her own home;

(2) community-based residential care for persons who need assistance with activities of daily living, including housing and personal, supportive, and intermittent health-related services available 24 hours per day, if HB5000 Enrolled - 8 - LRB103 38511 CES 68647 b needed, to meet the scheduled and unscheduled needs of a resident;

and (3) mandatory services, whether provided directly by the establishment or by another entity arranged for by the establishment, with the consent of the resident or the resident's representative.

"Shared housing establishment" or "establishment" does not mean any of the following:

(1) A home, institution, or similar place operated by the federal government or the State of Illinois.

(2) A long term care facility licensed under the Nursing Home Care Act, a facility licensed under the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013, a facility licensed under the ID/DD Community Care Act, or a facility licensed under the MC/DD Act.

A facility licensed under any of those Acts may, however, convert sections of the facility to assisted living.

If the facility elects to do so, the facility shall retain the Certificate of Need for its nursing beds that were converted.

(3) A hospital, sanitarium, or other institution, the principal activity or business of which is the diagnosis, care, and treatment of human illness and that is required to be licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act.

(4) A facility for child care as defined in the Child Care Act of 1969.

(5) A community living facility as defined in the HB5000 Enrolled - 9 - LRB103 38511 CES 68647 b Community Living Facilities Licensing Act.

(6) A nursing home or sanitarium operated solely by and for persons who rely exclusively upon treatment by spiritual means through prayer in accordance with the creed or tenants of a well-recognized church or religious denomination.

(7) A facility licensed by the Department of Human Services as a community-integrated living arrangement as defined in the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act.

(8) A supportive residence licensed under the Supportive Residences Licensing Act.

(9) A life care facility as defined in the Life Care Facilities Act;

a life care facility may apply under this Act to convert sections of the community to assisted living.

(10) A free-standing hospice facility licensed under the Hospice Program Licensing Act.

(11) An assisted living establishment.

(12) A supportive living facility as described in Section 5-5.01a of the Illinois Public Aid Code.

"Total assistance" means that staff or another individual performs the entire activity of daily living without participation by the resident.

(Source:

P.A.

99-180, eff.

7-29-15;

100-513, eff.

1-1-18.) HB5000 Enrolled - 10 - LRB103 38511 CES 68647 b (210 ILCS 9/75) Sec.

(2) the person is not able to communicate his or her needs and no resident representative residing in the establishment, and with a prior relationship to the person, has been appointed to direct the provision of HB5000 Engrossed - 2 - LRB103 38511 CES 68647 b services;

HB5000 Enrolled - 11 - LRB103 38511 CES 68647 b (6) the person has a severe mental illness, which for the purposes of this Section means a condition that is characterized by the presence of a major mental disorder as classified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) (American Psychiatric Association, 1994), where the individual is a person with a substantial disability due to mental illness in the areas of self-maintenance, social functioning, activities of community living and work skills, and the disability specified is expected to be present for a period of not less than one year, but does not mean Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia based on organic or physical disorders;

(8) the person requires gastrostomy feedings unless HB5000 Engrossed - 3 - LRB103 38511 CES 68647 b self-administered or administered by a licensed health care professional;

(9) (blank);the person requires insertion, sterile irrigation, and replacement of catheter, except for routine maintenance of urinary catheters, unless the catheter care is self-administered or administered by a licensed health care professional or a nurse in compliance with education, certification, and training in catheter care or infection HB5000 Enrolled - 12 - LRB103 38511 CES 68647 b control by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with oversight from an infection preventionist or infection control committee;

(10) the person requires insertion, sterile irrigation,wound andcare replacement of catheter, except for routine maintenance of urinary catheters, unless the catheter care is self-administered or administered by a licensed health care professional;

(10) the person requires level 3 or level 4 sterile wound care unless care is self-administered or administered by a licensed health care professional;

HB5000 Engrossed - 4 - LRB103 38511 CES 68647 b (d) A resident with a condition listed in items (1) through (15) of subsection (c) shall have his or her residency terminated.

(e) Residency shall be terminated when services available HB5000 Enrolled - 13 - LRB103 38511 CES 68647 b to the resident in the establishment are no longer adequate to meet the needs of the resident.

(h) For the purposes of items (7) through (10) of HB5000 Engrossed - 5 - LRB103 38511 CES 68647 b subsection (c), a licensed health care professional may not be employed by the owner or operator of the establishment, its parent entity, or any other entity with ownership common to either the owner or operator of the establishment or parent HB5000 Enrolled - 14 - LRB103 38511 CES 68647 b entity, including but not limited to an affiliate of the owner or operator of the establishment.

1-1-24.) (210 ILCS 9/76) Sec.

76.

Vaccinations.

(a) Before a prospective resident's admission to an assisted living establishment or shared housing establishment that does not provide medication administration as an optional service, the establishment shall advise the prospective resident to consult a physician to determine whether the prospective resident should obtain a vaccination against pneumococcal pneumonia or influenza, or both.

(b) An assisted living establishment or shared housing HB5000 Enrolled - 15 - LRB103 38511 CES 68647 b establishment that provides medication administration as an optional service shall annually administer or arrange for administration of a vaccination against influenza to each resident, in accordance with the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that are most recent to the time of vaccination, unless the vaccination is medically contraindicated or the resident has refused the vaccine.

Influenza vaccinations for all residents age 65 or over shall be completed by November 30 of each year or as soon as practicable if vaccine supplies are not available before November 1.

Residents admitted after November 30, during the flu season, and until February 1 shall, as medically appropriate, receive an influenza vaccination prior to or upon admission or as soon as practicable if vaccine supplies are not available at the time of the admission, unless the vaccine is medically contraindicated or the resident has refused the vaccine.

In the event that the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determines that dates of administration other than those stated in this Section are optimal to protect the health of residents, the Department is authorized to adopt rules to require vaccinations at those times rather than the times stated in this Section.

An establishment shall document in the resident's medication record that an annual vaccination against influenza was administered, arranged, refused, or HB5000 Enrolled - 16 - LRB103 38511 CES 68647 b medically contraindicated.

An assisted living establishment or shared housing establishment that provides medication administration as an optional service shall administer or arrange for administration of a pneumococcal vaccination to each resident who is age 65 or over, in accordance with the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who has not received this immunization prior to or upon admission to the establishment, unless the resident refuses the offer for vaccination or the vaccination is medically contraindicated.

An establishment shall document in each resident's medication record that a vaccination against pneumococcal pneumonia was offered and administered, arranged, refused, or medically contraindicated.

An assisted living establishment or shared housing establishment that provides catheter care to one or more residents shall designate at least one person as an Infection Prevention and Control Professional to develop and implement policies governing control of infections and communicable diseases.

The Infection Prevention and Control Professionals shall be qualified through education, training, experience, or certification or a combination of such qualifications.

The Infection Prevention and Control Professional's qualifications shall be documented and shall be made available for inspection by the Department.

The Department shall adopt rules to HB5000 Enrolled - 17 - LRB103 38511 CES 68647 b implement the changes made by this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly.

(Source:

P.A.

93-1003, eff.

8-23-04;

94-429, eff.

8-2-05.) Section 99.

Effective date.

This Act takes effect July 1, 2025.