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As used in this article "hospital" means any institution, place,
building, or agency, public or private, whether organized for profit
or not, devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of facilities
for the diagnosis, treatment and/or care of two or more unrelated
persons admitted for overnight stay or longer in order to obtain medical,
including obstetric and nursing, care of illness, disease, injury,
infirmity, or deformity. All places where pregnant females are received,
cared for, or treated during delivery shall be considered to be a
"hospital" within the meaning of this article irrespective of the
number of patients received or the duration of their stay. The term
"hospital" includes general and specialized hospitals, tuberculosis
sanitaria, and includes maternity homes, lying-in homes, and homes
for unwed mothers in which care is given during delivery.
The term "hospital" does not include any person, institution,
or special department within a hospital required to be licensed pursuant
to:
(a)
"An act of the state of Illinois in relation to the licensing and
regulation of homes for the maintenance, care, and nursing of persons
who are ill or physically infirm," approved July 17, 1945, as amended.
(b)
Section 28 of "an act of the state of Illinois to revise the laws
relating to charities," approved June 11, 1912, as amended.
(d)
Section 26 of "an act of the state of Illinois to revise the laws
relating to charities," approved June 11, 1912, as amended, pertaining
to the boarding out of patients of charitable institutions.
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It shall be unlawful for any person other than the regularly
constituted authorities of the United States, the state, the county
or the Village to open, conduct, manage or maintain any hospital within
the corporate limits of the Village, without first obtaining a license
therefor as provided in this article.
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Any person desiring the license required by the preceding section
shall apply in writing to the Village Clerk. The clerk shall thereupon
transmit the application to the commissioner of health. The application
shall truly state the location of the hospital, the purpose for which
it is to be opened, conducted or maintained, the accommodations or
proposed accommodations for the patients thereof, the nature and kind
of treatment given or proposed to be given therein, and the name and
address of the chief physician, surgeon or attending chief physician
or surgeon, or board of physicians or surgeons attendant therein.
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It shall be the duty of the commissioner of health, upon the presentation of the application referred to in the preceding section, to make or cause to be made strict inquiry into the facts set out in such application, and if upon such inquiry he shall find such hospital is or is intended to be so conducted as to afford proper accommodations for the care of the persons received or proposed to be received therein, and that the chief physician or surgeon, or intended chief physician or surgeon or board of physicians or surgeons thereof, gives or is under agreement thereof to give such attendance therein as does or will render him or them responsible, professionally, for the medical or surgical treatment given or to be given to any and all patients therein, and that such chief physician or surgeon, or board of physicians or surgeons, is regularly authorized to act as such under the laws of the state, and that such hospital complies or is intended to comply with all the rules and regulations which shall then be in force concerning the management and control of such hospitals and is constructed in strict compliance with the building code of the Village, then the Village Clerk with the approval of the President and Board of Trustees shall issue a license upon the payment to the Village Clerk by the applicant of the license fee required by Section 29-11 of this Code, authorizing such applicant to open, conduct, manage or maintain a hospital at the place, in the manner and for the purpose set forth in such application.
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Every hospital conducted, maintained or managed by any person
licensed as provided in this article, shall at all times be open to
the inspection of the commissioner of health and his duly appointed
assistants or inspectors; and the commissioner of health is hereby
authorized and empowered to inspect the same, or cause inspection
thereof to be made, whenever and as often as he may deem proper; and
if, upon such inspection, he shall find any such hospital to be conducted,
managed or maintained in violation of the terms of the application
for the license under which such hospital was opened, conducted, managed
or maintained, or in violation of any of the provisions of state law,
this Code or other ordinances of the Village or any of the health
or sanitary ordinances, rules or regulations of the Village, then
and in that event he may suspend the license for not to exceed 10
days pending action by the President and Board of Trustees upon revocation
of the license.
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No hospital of any kind or description shall hereafter be erected
or established within 400 feet of any property used for public or
parochial school purposes.
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In every hospital each room occupied or to be occupied by patients shall be of such dimensions as shall give each patient not less than 800 cubic feet of space. Every such room shall have at least one window connecting with the external air for each two beds. Such window shall be of such dimensions as shall secure to each patient at least 2,400 cubic feet of fresh air per hour by natural ventilation, or in case the window shall not secure the 2,400 cubic feet of air per hour by natural ventilation, then each room shall additionally be fitted with such appliances for ventilation as shall secure to each patient in the room at least 2,400 cubic feet of fresh air per hour. Each bed shall have at least 80 square feet of floor space. Each ward or wing in the hospital shall have running water furnished in one or more places, either in the ward or convenient thereto, so that the same may be adequate and convenient to the occupants thereof. The plumbing, water closets, bathrooms and other sanitary appliances and equipment shall be constructed in accordance with the provisions of this Code relating thereto. The floor of the cellar in any building used as a hospital shall be properly cemented so as to be watertight. The halls of each floor shall be open to the external air, with suitable windows, and shall have no room or other obstruction at either end thereof, unless sufficient light or ventilation is otherwise provided for such hall, and the building as a whole shall be provided with adequate and proper fire escapes, stairways, inclines or exits, as is required by Chapter 10 of this Code.
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Hospitals shall provide approved facilities and equipment for
the proper performance of autopsies and the proper care of the dead
pending their removal.
No person acting as superintendent or manager, or who is otherwise
in charge or control of any hospital, or any person connected with
any hospital in any capacity whatsoever as nurse, physician or attendant
shall order, permit or allow the body of any person who has been under
treatment in such hospital, and who shall have died therein, to be
removed from such hospital to any undertaking establishment at any
time within 24 hours after the hour of death, unless the removal of
such body has been authorized in writing by some member of the immediate
family of such deceased person, or by some person legally authorized
to order or permit such a removal. No such body shall be removed otherwise
than in accordance with state law governing and concerning the removal
of dead bodies; provided, that no body shall be kept at any hospital
longer than 36 hours after death without permission from the commissioner
of health.
It shall be the duty of all persons licensed in accordance with
this article to make a report to the commissioner of health, on or
before the fifth day of each month of such information as may be necessary
to an intelligent supervision of the establishment. All reports required
under this section shall be made and verified by the affidavit or
affirmation of the chief physician, superintendent or officer in charge
of the hospital.
There is hereby created and established a zone of quiet in all
territory embraced within a distance of 250 feet of every hospital
in the Village.
It shall be the duty of the Village Manager to place or cause
to be placed on lampposts or some other conspicuous place on every
street on which any hospital may be situated and at a distance of
not less than 250 feet in either direction from such hospital, signs
or placards displaying the words "NOTICE-ZONE OF QUIET." The making,
causing or permitting to be made any unnecessary noise, or the playing
of itinerant musicians, upon the public streets, avenues or alleys
within any such zone of quiet, which disturbs or which may tend to
disturb the peace and quiet of any of any of the patients of any hospital
located thereon, is hereby declared to be a nuisance, and is hereby
prohibited.
For the purpose of this article, unless the context requires
otherwise, the term "nursing home" or "convalescent home" means a
private home, institution, building, residence or other place, whether
operated for profit or not, which provides through its ownership or
management, maintenance, personal care or nursing for more than two
persons who, by reason of illness or physical infirmity, are unable
properly to care for themselves, or provides sheltered care to more
than two aged persons, not related to the operator by blood or marriage
but who need such shelter. The term does not include the following:
(a)
A home, institution or other place operated by the federal government
or any agency thereof or by the state;
(b)
A hospital, sanitarium or other institution whose principal activity
or business is the care and treatment of persons suffering from mental
or nervous diseases;
(c)
A hospital, sanitarium or other institution whose principal activity
or business is the diagnosis, care and treatment of human illness
through the maintenance and operation of organized facilities therefor;
(d)
Any child welfare agency, maternity or lying-in-home required to
be licensed by the state.
It shall be unlawful for any person other than regularly constituted
authorities of the United States, the state, the county or the Village
to open, conduct, manage or maintain any nursing home or convalescent
home as defined in this article within the corporate limits of the
Village without first having obtained a license therefor as provided
in this article.
Any person desiring the license required by the preceding section
shall apply in writing to the Village Clerk and shall truly state
in such application:
(a)
The name and address of the applicant, if an individual, and if a
firm, partnership or association, of every member thereof and of its
officers;
(b)
The location of the home for which a license is sought;
(c)
The name of the person under whose management or supervision the
home will be conducted;
(d)
The number and type of residents for which maintenance, care or nursing
is to be provided; and
(e)
The number and training of the employees of the home.
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Each application shall be accompanied by a plan of each floor
of the building, drawn to a scale of not less than 1/4 of an inch
to a foot, showing all fire escapes, stairways, halls, the location
and size of all windows, the location and size of habitable rooms,
the location of exits from each floor, the number of persons intended
to be accommodated in each room, and the intended use of every room
in the building legibly written on such plan.
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Upon receipt of the application and plan as provided for in
the preceding section, it shall be the duty of the Village Clerk to
submit the application and plan to the commissioner of health, the
building commissioner and the fire marshal, each of whom shall make
or cause to be made a proper inspection of the premises, and no license
shall be issued by the clerk until he has received the written approval
of the application and plan from each of such officials.
Before approving an application for a license, each of such
officials shall determine that the nursing home or convalescent home
meets with respect to his department the minimum standards from time
to time prescribed for nursing homes by the state department of public
health and in addition:
(a)
The commissioner of health shall determine that the nursing home
or convalescent home complies with all of the rules and regulations
of the hoard of health and with all sanitary and health requirements
of this Code:
(b)
The building commissioner shall determine that the building or structure complies with the requirements of Chapter 10 and that the building is located within an area in which nursing homes and convalescent homes are permitted:
(c)
The fire marshal shall determine that no fire hazards exists in the
building or on the premises, that fire-fighting equipment has been
installed and that all fire regulations set forth in this article
in regard to nursing homes or convalescent homes are complied with.
An application for the license required by this article may
be denied by the President and Board of Trustees for failure to meet
any of the requirements for nursing homes and convalescent homes prescribed
by this article or the state department of public health.
Every nursing home and convalescent home conducted and managed
by any person licensed as provided in this article and the books and
records of such home shall at all times be open to the inspection
of the commissioner of health, the building commissioner and the fire
marshal and their respective duly appointed assistants or inspectors.
The commissioner of health, the building commissioner and the fire
marshal are hereby authorized and empowered to inspect, or cause to
be inspected, any home licensed under this article whenever and as
often as they or any of them may deem proper. If upon inspection,
the commissioner of health, the building commissioner and the fire
marshal finds that such home is conducted and managed:
(a)
In violation of any of the rules and regulations of the hoard of
health;
(b)
In violation of any of the provisions of this Code; or,
(c)
In violation of the minimum standards, rules, regulations and orders
promulgated by the state department of public health, then and in
that event they may suspend the license for not to exceed 60 days
pending action on revocation of such license by the President and
Board of Trustees.
The license required by this article shall be displayed in a
conspicuous place in the hall or near the main entrance inside the
nursing or convalescent home.
The license required by this article shall be valid only in
the hands of the person to whom it is issued and shall not be the
subject of sale, assignment or other transfer, voluntary or involuntary,
nor shall a license be valid for any premises other than those for
which it was originally issued.
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Every licensee under the provisions of this article shall file
with the department of health of the Village copies of all reports
submitted to the state department of health in compliance with its
rules and regulations issued pursuant to the Illinois Compiled Statutes
and shall keep such records and make such additional reports as may
be required from time to time by the Village Clerk.
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The following general regulations shall be observed with respect
to every nursing home or convalescent home licensed under this article:
(a)
Patients may be housed on any floor, other than the basement, of
a fireproof building.
(b)
Every patient and employee shall obtain a chest X-ray within 30 days
of becoming a patient or employee and annually thereafter.
(c)
Every room used for sleeping purposes shall have a minimum floor
area of 80 square feet per person for single occupancy rooms, 70 square
feet per person for double occupancy rooms and 60 square feet per
person for multiple (three or more) occupancy rooms, and the space
between beds shall not be less than three feet.
(d)
A bathroom, lavatory and toilet shall be provided on each occupied
floor.
(e)
All buildings used for the purposes referred to in this article shall
be of fireproof construction.
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The following fire regulations shall be observed with respect
to every nursing or convalescent home licensed under this article:
(a)
The building shall be equipped with fire extinguishing equipment
as specified from time to time by the chief of the fire department.
(b)
No fire hazard shall be permitted to exist in the building or about
the premises.
(c)
Whenever any building or structure or part thereof of any chimney,
smokestack, stove, oven, furnace or thing connected with the building
or structure or located in or upon the premises is deemed a fire hazard
or an additional hazard in case of fire, the fire marshal is authorized
to give written notice of the existence of such hazard to the person
operating such nursing home or convalescent home, and such person
shall proceed to carry out the instructions of the fire marshal within
five days from receipt of the notice.
(d)
The building shall comply with all regulations and recommendations
of the fire department of the Village.
(e)
The building or structure shall be heated only by means of a central
heating plant properly installed to safeguard against inherent fire
hazards. The use of portable heaters is prohibited.
(f)
The heating plant shall be enclosed in a fireproof room in the basement
of the structure, together with a metal clad door, and approval of
the heating plant shall be obtained from the fire department before
application for a license is approved.
