IL HB5488

Amends the Long Term Acute Care Hospital Quality Improvement Transfer Program Act to require the CARE tool used by participating hospitals to be identical to the most current version required by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Extends the deadline for hospitals to electronically submit the CARE tool and quality data to the Department from 7 calendar days to 13 calendar days after patient discharge.

Requires hospitals to submit additional data in an electronic format including whether patients were successfully weaned off invasive mechanical ventilation, whether ventilator patients acquired pneumonia, and whether patients fell and required medical procedures.

Replaces specific quality measures (average length of stay, adverse outcome rates, ventilator weaning rates, central line infection rates, pressure ulcers, and falls with injury) with requirements that hospitals provide quality and outcome measurement data identical to Medicare's LTCH Quality Reporting Program Manual (version 2.0) and subsequent revisions.

Eliminates the Department's authority to identify discharge tools equivalent to the CARE tool, requiring use of the federal CARE tool instead, and directs the Department to minimize administrative burden on participating hospitals when collecting required data.