§ 2310-640 — Hospital Capital Investment Program

(a) Subject to appropriation, the Department shall establish and administer a program to award capital grants to Illinois hospitals licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act. Grants awarded under this program shall only be used to fund capital projects to improve or renovate the hospital's facility or to improve, replace or acquire the hospital's equipment or technology. Such projects may include, but are not limited to, projects to satisfy any building code, safety standard or life safety code; projects to maintain, improve, renovate, expand or construct buildings or structures; projects to maintain, establish or improve health information technology; or projects to maintain or improve patient safety, quality of care or access to care. The Department shall establish rules necessary to implement the Hospital Capital Investment Program, including application standards, requirements for the distribution and obligation of grant funds, accounting for the use of the funds, reporting the status of funded projects, and standards for monitoring compliance with standards. In awarding grants under this Section, the Department shall consider criteria that include but are not limited to: the financial requirements of the project and the extent to which the grant makes it possible to implement the project; the proposed project's likely benefit in terms of patient safety or quality of care; and the proposed project's likely benefit in terms of maintaining or improving access to care. The Department shall approve a hospital's eligibility for a hospital capital investment grant pursuant to the standards established by this Section. The Department shall determine eligible project costs, including but not limited to the use of funds for the acquisition, development, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement, architectural planning, engineering, and installation of capital facilities consisting of buildings, structures, technology and durable equipment for hospital purposes. No portion of a hospital capital investment grant awarded by the Department may be used by a hospital to pay for any on-going operational costs, pay outstanding debt, or be allocated to an endowment or other invested fund. Nothing in this Section shall exempt nor relieve any hospital receiving a grant under this Section from any requirement of the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act. (b) Safety Net Hospital Grants. The Department shall make capital grants to hospitals eligible for safety net hospital grants under this subsection. The total amount of grants to any individual hospital shall be no less than $2,500,000 and no more than $7,000,000. The total amount of grants to hospitals under this subsection shall not exceed $100,000,000. Hospitals that satisfy one of the following criteria shall be eligible to apply for safety net hospital grants: (1) Any general acute care hospital located in a county of over 3,000,000 inhabitants that has a Medicaid inpatient utilization rate for the rate year beginning on October 1, 2008 greater than 43%, that is not affiliated with a hospital system that owns or operates more than 3 hospitals, and that has more than 13,500 Medicaid inpatient days. (2) Any general acute care hospital that is located in a county of more than 3,000,000 inhabitants and has a Medicaid inpatient utilization rate for the rate year beginning on October 1, 2008 greater than 55% and has authorized beds for the obstetric-gynecology category of service as reported in the 2008 Annual Hospital Bed Report, issued by the Illinois Department of Public Health. (3) Any hospital that is defined in 89 Illinois Administrative Code Section 149.50(c)(3)(A) and that has less than 20,000 Medicaid inpatient days. (4) Any general acute care hospital that is located in a county of less than 3,000,000 inhabitants and has a Medicaid inpatient utilization rate for the rate year beginning on October 1, 2008 greater than 64%. (5) Any general acute care hospital that is located in a county of over 3,000,000 inhabitants and a city of less than 1,000,000 inhabitants, that has a Medicaid inpatient utilization rate for the rate year beginning on October 1, 2008 greater than 22%, that has more than 12,000 Medicaid inpatient days, and that has a case mix index greater than 0.71. (c) Community Hospital Grants. The Department shall make a one-time capital grant to any public or not-for-profit hospitals located in counties of less than 3,000,000 inhabitants that are not otherwise eligible for a grant under subsection (b) of this Section and that have a Medicaid inpatient utilization rate for the rate year beginning on October 1, 2008 of at least 10%. The total amount of grants under this subsection shall not exceed $50,000,000. This grant shall be the sum of the following payments: (1) For each acute care hospital, a base payment of: (i) $170,000 if it is located in an urban area; or (ii) $340,000 if it is located in a rural area. (2) A payment equal to the product of $45 multiplied by total Medicaid inpatient days for each hospital. (d) Annual report. The Department of Public Health shall prepare and submit to the Governor and the General Assembly an annual report by January 1 of each year regarding its administration of the Hospital Capital Investment Program, including an overview of the program and information about the specific purpose and amount of each grant and the status of funded projects. The report shall include information as to whether each project is subject to and authorized under the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act, if applicable. (e) Definitions. As used in this Section, the following terms shall be defined as follows: "General acute care hospital" shall have the same meaning as general acute care hospital in Section 5A-12.2 of the Illinois Public Aid Code. "Hospital" shall have the same meaning as defined in Section 3 of the Hospital Licensing Act, but in no event shall it include a hospital owned or operated by a State agency, a State university, or a county with a population of 3,000,000 or more. "Medicaid inpatient day" shall have the same meaning as defined in Section 5A-12.2(n) of the Illinois Public Aid Code. "Medicaid inpatient utilization rate" shall have the same meaning as provided in Title 89, Chapter I, subchapter d, Part 148, Section 148.120 of the Illinois Administrative Code. "Rural" shall have the same meaning as provided in Title 89, Chapter I, subchapter d, Part 148, Section 148.25(g)(3) of the Illinois Administrative Code. "Urban" shall have the same meaning as provided in Title 89, Chapter I, subchapter d, Part 148, Section 148.25(g)(4) of the Illinois Administrative Code.

Legislative History

(Source: P.A. 96-37, eff. 7-13-09; 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10.)