Illinois Compiled Statutes 225 ILCS 70/4 – Definitions
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For purposes of this Act, the following definitions shall have the following meanings, except where the context requires otherwise:
(1) “Act” means the Nursing Home Administrators
(1) “Act” means the Nursing Home Administrators
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Licensing and Disciplinary Act.
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(2) “Department” means the Department of Financial
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and Professional Regulation.
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(3) “Secretary” means the Secretary of Financial and
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Professional Regulation.
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(4) “Board” means the Nursing Home Administrators
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Licensing and Disciplinary Board.
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(5) “Nursing home administrator” means the individual
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licensed under this Act and directly responsible for planning, organizing, directing and supervising the operation of a nursing home, or who in fact performs such functions, whether or not such functions are delegated to one or more other persons.
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(6) “Nursing home” or “facility” means any entity
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that is required to be licensed by the Department of Public Health under the Nursing Home Care Act, as amended, other than a sheltered care home as defined thereunder, and includes private homes, institutions, buildings, residences, or other places, whether operated for profit or not, irrespective of the names attributed to them, county homes for the infirm and chronically ill operated pursuant to the County Nursing Home Act, as amended, and any similar institutions operated by a political subdivision of the State of Illinois that provide, through their ownership or management, maintenance, personal care, and nursing for 3 or more persons, not related to the owner by blood or marriage, or any similar facilities in which maintenance is provided to 3 or more persons who by reason of illness of physical infirmity require personal care and nursing. The term also means any facility licensed under the ID/DD Community Care Act, the MC/DD Act, or the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013.
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(7) “Maintenance” means food, shelter and laundry.
(8) “Personal care” means assistance with meals,
Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 225 ILCS 70/4
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
- individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.36
- Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
- State: when applied to different parts of the United States, may be construed to include the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" may be construed to include the said district and territories. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.14
(8) “Personal care” means assistance with meals,
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dressing, movement, bathing, or other personal needs, or general supervision of the physical and mental well-being of an individual who because of age, physical, or mental disability, emotion or behavior disorder, or an intellectual disability is incapable of managing his or her person, whether or not a guardian has been appointed for such individual. For the purposes of this Act, this definition does not include the professional services of a nurse.
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(9) “Nursing” means professional nursing or practical
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nursing, as those terms are defined in the Nurse Practice Act, for sick or infirm persons who are under the care and supervision of licensed physicians or dentists.
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(10) “Disciplinary action” means revocation,
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suspension, probation, supervision, reprimand, required education, fines or any other action taken by the Department against a person holding a license.
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(11) “Impaired” means the inability to practice with
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reasonable skill and safety due to physical or mental disabilities as evidenced by a written determination or written consent based on clinical evidence including deterioration through the aging process or loss of motor skill, or abuse of drugs or alcohol, of sufficient degree to diminish a person’s ability to administer a nursing home.
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(12) “Address of record” means the designated address
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recorded by the Department in the applicant’s or licensee’s application file or license file maintained by the Department’s licensure maintenance unit.
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(13) “Email address of record” means the designated
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email address recorded by the Department in the applicant’s application file or the licensee’s license file, as maintained by the Department’s licensure maintenance unit.
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