§ 5-23013 — Services; regulations

Every sanitarium board established under this Division shall provide sanitarium care and clinical and follow-up services for the benefit of such of the inhabitants of the county who may be afflicted with tuberculosis. Those inhabitants shall be entitled to occupancy, nursing, care, medicines and attendance, according to the rules and regulations prescribed by the board of directors. The board of directors may adopt reasonable rules and regulations requiring payment for services by persons with private health insurance and persons entitled to medical assistance under the Illinois Public Aid Code. The board of directors may adopt reasonable rules and regulations concerning the use of the facilities established pursuant to this Division in order to render the use of these facilities of the greatest benefit to the greatest number, and the board of directors may exclude from the use of the sanitarium any and all persons who willfully violate the board's rules or regulations. The board may not, however, prescribe rules and regulations which conflict with Section 5-23014 of this Division, and a determination of whether a person is an inhabitant or resident of the county for purposes of this Division shall be based on Section 5-23014. Except as authorized and permitted by Section 5-23011 no person afflicted with tuberculosis may be compelled to enter a sanitarium, or any of its branches, dispensaries, or other auxiliary institutions without his consent in writing first having been obtained, or, in case of a minor or one under a disability, the consent in writing of the parent or the parents, guardian or conservator, as the case may be. The board of directors shall upon request or by consent of the persons afflicted, or of his or her parent or guardian extend the benefits and privileges of the institution, under proper rules and regulations, into the homes of persons afflicted with tuberculosis, shall furnish nurses, instruction, medicines, attendance, and all other aid necessary to effect a cure, and shall do all things in and about the treatment and care of persons so afflicted, which will have a tendency to effect a cure of the person or persons afflicted with tuberculosis and to eradicate tuberculosis in the county including the discovery of undiagnosed tuberculosis in the county. Boards of directors shall provide out-patient clinical and follow-up services to tuberculosis patients, in accordance with minimum standards prescribed therefor, by the director of the Department of Public Health. The board of directors may make such arrangements and agreements with public or private health agencies for cooperation and assistance in providing case-finding services and out-patient clinical and follow-up services as it considers necessary or desirable. The board of directors may extend the privileges and use of the sanitarium and treatment to persons so afflicted, residing outside of the county, upon such terms and conditions as the board of directors may from time to time by its rules and regulations prescribe consistent with Section 5-23014. Boards of directors may use funds secured from taxes levied under Sections 1 and 2 in providing sanitarium care of tuberculosis patients in private or public sanitariums. No county that has voted for the establishment and maintenance of a county tuberculosis sanitarium is prevented from using funds acquired by levy of annual tax for such purpose for the care of tuberculosis patients in private or public sanitariums by reason of Sections 5-23029 and 5-23030 or Sections 5-23039 and 5-23040 authorizing levy of an annual tax for the care and treatment of persons afflicted with tuberculosis; but if a vote under Sections 5-23029 and 5-23030 or Sections 5-23039 and 5-23040 authorizes the levy of an annual tax for the care and treatment of persons afflicted with tuberculosis, then the levy of an annual tax for the establishment and maintenance of a county tuberculosis sanitarium under Sections 5-23001 and 5-23006 shall be discontinued without submission of the question of discontinuing the levy of a tax under Sections 5-23001 and 5-23006 to a vote of the electors.

Legislative History

(Source: P.A. 88-434.)