Illinois Administrative Code
Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH
Part 545 - SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVORS EMERGENCY TREATMENT CODE
Section 545.95 - Emergency Contraception
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 12, March 22, 2024
a) Every hospital or approved pediatric health care facility providing services to sexual assault survivors in accordance with a plan approved under Section 545.35 shall develop a protocol for providing emergency contraception information and treatment to sexual assault survivors. (Section 2.2(b) of the Act)
b) The Department will approve the protocol if it finds that the implementation of the protocol would provide sufficient protection for survivors of sexual assault and if the protocol provides for the following as soon as possible and, in any event, no later than 12 hours after the sexual assault survivor presents himself or herself at the hospital or approved pediatric health care facility for emergency care:
c) The hospital or approved pediatric health care facility shall implement the protocol upon approval by the Department. (Section 2.2(b) of the Act)
d) The Department will produce medically and factually accurate written materials that all treatment hospitals and approved pediatric health care facilities shall provide to each female sexual assault survivor of childbearing age.