Chapter 5-82
NURSING HOMES
Sections:
5-82-070 Accommodations for inmates.
5-82-010 Definitions.
For the purpose of this chapter “Nursing Home” or “home” means a private home, institution, building, residence, or other place, serving three or more persons who are not related by blood or marriage to the operator, whether operated for profit or not, which undertakes, through its ownership or management, to provide maintenance, personal care, or nursing for persons who, by reason of illness or physical infirmity, are unable properly to care for themselves. The term does not include the following:
A. A home, institution or other place operated by the federal government or agency thereof, or by the state of Illinois;
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 hospital or lying-in-home required to be licensed by the state. (Prior code § 5-33-1)
5-82-020 License required.
No person shall open, conduct, manage, maintain or operate a nursing home without first obtaining a license therefor as hereinafter provided. (Prior code § 5-33-2)
5-82-030 License application.
Any person desiring such license shall make application in writing to the clerk. Such application shall conform to the general provisions of this chapter relating to applications for licenses and shall state the location or proposed location of the home, the purpose for which it is to be opened, conducted, maintained or operated, the accommodations for the inmates thereof, the nature and kind of care, instruction or benefits given or proposed to be given therein, the name and address of the officials or board of officials conducting, managing, maintaining or operating said home, the name of the superintendent or person in charge of said home, the name and address of the chief physician, surgeon or attending physician or surgeon, or the names and addresses of the board of physicians or surgeons attending therein if there is such a board. (Prior code § 5-33-3)
5-82-040 Location.
No such home as defined in this chapter shall be located in any portion of the city not zoned for business purposes. (Prior code § 5-33-4)
5-82-050 Inspection.
It shall be the duty of the health officer and fire chief upon presentation of such application, to make or cause to be made strict inquiry into the facts set out in such application, and if upon inquiry and inspection he shall find that such home complies with all provisions of this code and statutes relating thereto, he shall recommend to the council that a license be issued. (Prior code § 5-33-5)
5-82-060 Fee.
The license fee to be paid annually for a nursing home shall be eight hundred dollars ($800.00). (Ord. 3316 § 2 (part), 2015: Ord. 3221 § 22, 2009; Ord. 1921 (part), 1972; prior code § 5-33-6)
5-82-070 Accommodations for inmates.
A. In every such home, each room occupied or to be occupied by inmates shall be of such dimensions as shall give each inmate not less than four hundred (400) cubic feet of air space. Every such room shall have at least one window connecting with the external air for each four beds. Said windows shall be of such dimensions as shall secure to each inmate at least one thousand five hundred (1,500) cubic feet of fresh air per hour by ventilation, or in case said window shall not secure one thousand five hundred (1,500) cubic feet of fresh air per hour by natural ventilation, then each room shall in addition thereto, be fitted with such appliances for ventilation as shall secure to each inmate in said room at least one thousand five hundred (1,500) cubic feet of fresh air per hour. Each bed shall have at least forty (40) square feet of floor space, and in every room or dormitory containing more than one bed, the beds shall be so arranged as to leave a passageway of not less than two feet horizontally on all sides of each bed.
B. Each ward or wing in said home shall have running water furnished in one or more places, either in said ward or convenient thereto so that the some 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 or basement in the building used as a home shall be properly cemented so as to be watertight.
C. 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 and ventilation is otherwise provided for such halls, and the building as a whole shall be provided with adequate and proper fire escapes, stairways or inclines for exits.
D. All homes, including the culinary department, dining rooms, laundry, laboratory, morgue and postmortem rooms connected with the same, shall be equipped from May 15th to November 15th with doors, screens and other appliances necessary for the exclusion of flies. (Prior code § 5-33-7)