Illinois

What is it called?

Assisted Living Establishment

What services are provided?

• Facility must provide:
• Assistance with activities of daily living
• Intermittent health-related services

• Facility has the discretion to provide:
• Medication reminders
• Supervision of self-administered medication
• Medication administration
• Medication administration must be performed by a licensed health care professional

Who can be admitted?

• Individuals with quadriplegia, paraplegic, or neuro-muscular diseases if the facility provides for the special safety and service needs of those individuals

Who is inappropriate?

• Residents who
• Need nursing care
• Need total assistance with at least two activities of daily living
• Need assistance with an activity of daily living from more than one paid caregiver (except for adults with quadriplegic, paraplegic, or neuro-muscular diseases who can communicate needs)
• Have serious mental problems
• Have needs that cannot be provided or arranged by the facility
• Need more than minimal assistance in an emergency(except for adults with quadriplegic, paraplegic, or neuro-muscular diseases who can communicate needs)
• Need IV therapy or feedings unless self-administered or administered by a qualified licensed health care professional
• Need gastrostomy feedings, sterile wound care, sliding scale insulin administration, routine insulin injections, or insertion of sterile irrigation and replacement of catheter except for routine catheter maintenance unless self-administered by a licensed health care professional(except for adults with quadriplegic, paraplegic, or neuro-muscular diseases who can communicate needs)
• Have Stage 3 or 4 pressure sores
• Need five or more skilled nursing visits per week (for conditions other than pressure sores) for three consecutive weeks unless treatment is expected to extend beyond three weeks for rehabilitation purposes but nonetheless is certified as temporary by a physician
• Are unable to communicate needs, unless there is a resident representative living in the facility that has been appointed
• Have communicable, contagious, or infectious disease unless the facility can provide necessary infection control
• Exception to eviction conditions
• Terminally-ill residents who qualify for hospice care and whose care is coordinated by a licensed hospice may remain at the facility

What training is required for direct care staff?

• Initial training
• Orientation within ten days of employment covering the following topics
• Promotion of resident dignity, independence, self-determination, privacy, choice, and rights
• Hygiene and infection control
• Abuse and neglect prevention and reporting
• Disaster procedures

• Training within thirty days of employment on the following topics
• Resident service plans
• CPR and emergency procedures
• Activities of daily living

• Continuing training
• Minimum of eight hours annually, on the following topics:
• Same topics under “orientation”
• Self-administration of medications

• Additional requirements
• At least one direct care staff member with current CPR certification must be on duty at all times

Is nurse staffing required?

Facility must arrange for consultation from a registered nurse if it does not employ a registered nurse

Is any public payment available?

Not at this time

More Information

Department of Public Health                                                     Illinois Long Term Care Ombudsman

Division of Assisted Living                                          (217) 785 - 3143

(217) 782 - 2913

                                                                  www.state.il.us/aging

www.idph.state.il.us