Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that a hospital licensed under the Act must, at the time a patient is being checked in, give the patient an opportunity to designate an emergency contact to be notified if the patient dies or experiences a significant change in condition. If an emergency contact is designated, hospital staff must communicate with the emergency contact and ask whether the emergency contact would prefer to be notified by telephone call, by hospital staff when the emergency contact reaches the hospital, or by some other method.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 210 ILCS 85/11
Engrossed: 210 ILCS 91/1, 210 ILCS 91/5, 210 ILCS 91/10, 210 ILCS 91/14, 210 ILCS 91/30
Enrolled: 210 ILCS 91/1, 210 ILCS 91/5, 210 ILCS 91/10, 210 ILCS 91/14, 210 ILCS 91/30