The new protections, approved by a state legislative committee Dec. 15, are detailed in a Dec. 16 AARP Illinois news release, an organization that has lobbied for such efforts for two years.
The Illinois Joint Committee of Administrative Rules has approved the following:
- Requiring written, voluntary and informed consent from a resident or surrogate decision maker before psychotropic drugs can be administered
- Educating staff on policies related to residents’ informed consent policies and procedures
- Providing appropriately strong remedies for informed consent violations
- Requiring the Illinois Department of Public Health to verify and enforce compliance with minimum staffing requirements
- Making information about facility-specific staffing levels and violations available to the public
- Providing appropriately strong remedies for minimum staffing violations
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