HB 4598

  • Illinois House Bill
  • 94th Regular Session
  • Introduced in House
  • House
  • Senate
  • Governor

Hlth Facility-Language Assist

Abstract

Amends the Language Assistance Services Act. Provides that a hospital or nursing home (i) must adopt and review annually a policy for providing language assistance services to patients with language or communication barriers and (ii) must provide its nonbilingual staff with standardized picture and phrase sheets for use in routine communications with patients who have language or communication barriers (instead of having those 2 activities as options). Provides that a hospital or nursing home must also do at least one of the remaining 7 specified activities (instead of providing that a hospital or nursing home must do one or more of 9 specified activities). Effective immediately.

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Feb 07, 2006

House

Tabled By Sponsor Rep. William Delgado

Jan 18, 2006

House

Assigned to Human Services Committee

Jan 11, 2006

House

Filed with the Clerk by Rep. William Delgado

House

First Reading

House

Referred to Rules Committee

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