The Department shall establish rules necessary to implement the Hospital Capital Investment Program, including application standards, requirements for the distribution and obligation of grant funds, accounting for the use of the funds, reporting the status of funded projects, and standards for monitoring compliance with standards. In awarding grants under this Section, the Department shall consider criteria that include but are not limited to: the financial requirements of the project and the extent to which the grant makes it possible to implement the project; the proposed project's likely benefit in terms of patient safety or quality of care; and the proposed project's likely benefit in terms of maintaining or improving access to care.
The Department shall approve a hospital's eligibility for a hospital capital investment grant pursuant to the standards established by this Section. The Department shall determine eligible project costs, including but not limited to the use of funds for the acquisition, development, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement, architectural planning, engineering, and installation of capital facilities consisting of buildings, structures, technology and durable equipment for hospital purposes. No portion of a hospital capital investment grant awarded by the Department may be used by a hospital to pay for any on-going operational costs, pay outstanding debt, or be allocated to an endowment or other invested fund.
Nothing in this Section shall exempt nor relieve any hospital receiving a grant under this Section from any requirement of the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act.
"General acute care hospital" shall have the same meaning as general acute care hospital in Section 5A-12.2 of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
"Hospital" shall have the same meaning as defined in Section 3 of the Hospital Licensing Act, but in no event shall it include a hospital owned or operated by a State agency, a State university, or a county with a population of 3,000,000 or more.
"Medicaid inpatient day" shall have the same meaning as defined in Section 5A-12.2(n) of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
"Medicaid inpatient utilization rate" shall have the same meaning as provided in Title 89, Chapter I, subchapter d, Part 148, Section 148.120 of the Illinois Administrative Code.
"Rural" shall have the same meaning as provided in Title 89, Chapter I, subchapter d, Part 148, Section 148.25(g)(3) of the Illinois Administrative Code.
"Urban" shall have the same meaning as provided in Title 89, Chapter I, subchapter d, Part 148, Section 148.25(g)(4) of the Illinois Administrative Code.
20 ILCS 2310/2310-640