Illinois § 2310-730

§ 2310-730.

Health care telementoring. (a) Subject to appropriation, the Department shall designate one or more health care telementoring entities based on an application to be developed by the Department. Applicants shall demonstrate a record of expertise and demonstrated success in providing health care telementoring services. The Department may adopt rules necessary for the implementation of this Section. Funding may be provided based on the number of health care providers or professionals who are assisted by each approved health care telementoring entity and the hours of assistance provided to each health care provider or professional in addition to other factors as determined by the Director. (b) In this Section: "Health care providers or professionals" means individuals trained to provide health care or related services. "Health care providers or professionals" includes, but is not limited to, physicians, nurses, physician assistants, speech language pathologists, social workers, and school personnel involved in screening for targeted conditions and providing support to students impacted by those conditions. "Health care telementoring" means a program: (1) that is based on interactive video or phone technology that connects groups of local health care providers or professionals in urban and rural underserved areas with specialists in regular real-time collaborative sessions; (2) that is designed around case-based learning and mentorship; and (3) that helps local health care providers or professionals gain the expertise required to more effectively provide needed services. "Health care telementoring" includes, but is not limited to, a program provided to improve services in one or more of a variety of areas, including, but not limited to, chronic disease, communicable disease, atypical vision or hearing, adolescent health, Hepatitis C, complex diabetes, geriatrics, mental illness, opioid use disorders, substance use disorders, maternity care, childhood adversity and trauma, pediatric ADHD, congregate settings, including justice-involved systems, and other priorities identified by the Department. (Source: P.A. 103-588, eff. 6-5-24; 104-417, eff. 8-15-25.)