HB 399

Abstract

Creates the Health Care Setting Violence Prevention Act. Requires health care settings, including hospitals, mental health evaluation and treatment facilities, community mental health programs, home health agencies, and hospice programs, by July 1, 2006, to adopt and implement a plan to reasonably prevent and protect employees from violence at the setting. Requires a health care setting to file copies of its plan, and copies of changes to the plan, with the Department of Labor and the Department of Human Services. Requires a review of the plan at least once every 3 years. Requires health care settings to provide violence prevention training to employees by July 1, 2007. Requires health care settings to keep records of violent acts against an employee, a patient, or a visitor and to forward copies of such records to the Department of Labor and the Department of Human Services. Provides for enforcement of the Act by the Department of Labor, and authorizes the Director of Labor to issue an order for correction to a health care setting fixing a time for abatement of a violation. Amends the Illinois State Auditing Act. Requires that the Auditor General's audits of certain mental health and developmental disabilities facilities under the jurisdiction of the Department of Human Services include their records concerning reports of suspected abuse of facility staff by facility residents or patients. Effective immediately.