77 Ill. Adm. Code 385.1550
Clients' Rights
Section 385
Section 385.1550Â Clients'
Rights
a)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A client shall not be deprived of any rights, benefits, or
privileges guaranteed by law based solely on his/her status as a resident of
the facility.
b)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A client shall be permitted to retain and use or wear his/her
personal property in his/her immediate living quarters unless deemed medically
inappropriate or socially disruptive by a physician and so documented in the
client's record.
c)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The facility shall provide a means of safeguarding small items
of value for the clients in their rooms or in any other part of the facility,
so long as the client has daily access to such valuables.
d)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The facility shall make reasonable efforts to prevent loss and
theft of clients' property. The facility shall develop procedures for
investigating complaints concerning theft of clients' property and shall
promptly investigate all such complaints.
e)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â There shall be no traffic through a client's room to reach any
other area of the building.
f)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Children under 16 years of age who are related to employees or
volunteers of a facility, and who are not themselves employees/volunteers of
the facility, shall be restricted to quarters reserved for family or employee
use except during times when such children are part of a group visiting the
facility as part of a planned program, or similar activity.
g)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A client may refuse to perform labor for a facility unless
specified in the admission contract, and the client's integrated care plan.
h)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A client shall be permitted the free exercise of religion.Â
Upon a client's request, and if necessary at his/her expense, the facility
management shall make arrangements for a client's attendance at religious
services of the client's choice. However, no religious beliefs or practices or
attendance at religious services may be imposed upon any client.
i)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The facility shall encourage and not prohibit a client's
right to vote in person or by absentee ballot in all elections.
j)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Upon entering the facility, clients shall be provided with a
form on which they may list those persons to be notified in the event of their
death, or at such time as their death appears imminent. A client may decline
to have any person notified of his/her death. In all cases, the client's
physician shall be notified by the facility.
k)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The facility shall notify the client's representative whenever
the client suffers from a sudden illness or accident, or if and when
unexplained absences occur, in accordance with the terms of the contract.
l)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A client may not be transferred, discharged, evicted,
harassed, dismissed, or retaliated against for filing a complaint or providing
information concerning a complaint against the facility.