Bill Text: IL HB2895 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall ensure that all birthing facilities conduct continuing education yearly for providers and staff of obstetric medicine and of the emergency department and other staff that may care for pregnant or postpartum women. Requires the continuing education to include yearly educational modules regarding management of severe maternal hypertension and obstetric hemorrhage for units that care for pregnant or postpartum women. Requires birthing facilities to demonstrate compliance with the education and training requirements. Provides that the Department shall collaborate with the Illinois Perinatal Quality Collaborative or its successor organization to develop an initiative to improve birth equity and reduce peripartum racial and ethnic disparities. Provides that the Department shall support the initiation of a statewide perinatal quality improvement initiative. Provides that the Department shall make available to all birthing facilities best practices for timely identification of all pregnant and postpartum women in the emergency department and for appropriate and timely consultation of an obstetric provider to provide input on management and follow-up. Effective January 1, 2020.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-08-16 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0390 [HB2895 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB2895-Enrolled.html

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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Department of Public Health Powers and
Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
amended by adding Section 2310-223 as follows:
(20 ILCS 2310/2310-223 new)
Sec. 2310-223. Obstetric hemorrhage and hypertension
training.
(a) As used in this Section, "birthing facility" means (1)
a hospital, as defined in the Hospital Licensing Act, with more
than one licensed obstetric bed or a neonatal intensive care
unit; (2) a hospital operated by a State university; or (3) a
birth center, as defined in the Alternative Health Care
Delivery Act.
(b) The Department shall ensure that all birthing
facilities conduct continuing education yearly for providers
and staff of obstetric medicine and of the emergency department
and other staff that may care for pregnant or postpartum women.
The continuing education shall include yearly educational
modules regarding management of severe maternal hypertension
and obstetric hemorrhage for units that care for pregnant or
postpartum women. Birthing facilities must demonstrate

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compliance with these education and training requirements.
(c) The Department shall collaborate with the Illinois
Perinatal Quality Collaborative or its successor organization
to develop an initiative to improve birth equity and reduce
peripartum racial and ethnic disparities. The Department shall
ensure that the initiative includes the development of best
practices for implicit bias training and education in cultural
competency to be used by birthing facilities in interactions
between patients and providers. In developing the initiative,
the Illinois Perinatal Quality Collaborative or its successor
organization shall consider existing programs, such as the
Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health and the California
Maternal Quality Collaborative's pilot work on improving birth
equity. The Department shall support the initiation of a
statewide perinatal quality improvement initiative in
collaboration with birthing facilities to implement strategies
to reduce peripartum racial and ethnic disparities and to
address implicit bias in the health care system.
(d) The Department, in consultation with the Maternal
Mortality Review Committee, shall make available to all
birthing facilities best practices for timely identification
of all pregnant and postpartum women in the emergency
department and for appropriate and timely consultation of an
obstetric provider to provide input on management and
follow-up. Birthing facilities may use telemedicine for the
consultation.

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(e) The Department may adopt rules for the purpose of
implementing this Section.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
1, 2020.