(405 ILCS 142/5)
    Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
    "Department" means the Department of Healthcare and Family Services.
    "Emergency safety intervention" means the use of restraint or seclusion as an immediate response to an emergency safety situation.
    "Medical assistance" means health care benefits provided under the Illinois Medical Assistance Program administered under Article V of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
    "Psychiatric residential treatment facility" or "PRTF" means a facility that is certified by the Department to provide subacute psychiatric services to individuals under age 21, or to individuals until their 22nd birthday if the individual was admitted to the PRTF before the individual's 21st birthday as described in 42 CFR 441, Subpart D, or any successor regulation, in an inpatient setting in accordance with a provider agreement with the Department. A PRTF is not:
        (1) a hospital under the Hospital Licensing Act;
        (2) a child care institution or child care facility
    
under the Child Care Act of 1969;
        (3) a nursing home or long-term care facility under
    
the Nursing Home Care Act;
        (4) a secure residential youth care facility under
    
the Secure Residential Youth Care Facility Licensing Act;
        (5) a specialized mental health rehabilitation
    
facility under the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013; or
        (6) any facility or institution required to be
    
licensed under the ID/DD Community Care Act or the MC/DD Act.
    "Serious occurrences" means a serious injury to a resident as defined in 42 CFR 483.352, or any successor regulation, a resident's suicide attempt, or a resident's death.
    "Subacute psychiatric services" means inpatient psychiatric treatment services provided under the direction of a physician, in a non-acute (non-hospital) setting, for individuals under the age of 21 (or for individuals until their 22nd birthday if admitted to the PRTF before their 21st birthday) that require intensive services that cannot be delivered in a community setting. Subacute psychiatric services are short-term, comprehensive, recovery-oriented treatment delivered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with the focus of returning children to a less restrictive community setting as rapidly as possible.
(Source: P.A. 104-147, eff. 8-1-25.)