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This bill requires home health and home care workers in Illinois to wear photo identification badges while providing services to patients or consumers. Specifically, for workers under the Community Care Program and those providing home services, home health services, or home nursing services (who are not family members), the identification badge must prominently display four key pieces of information: the worker's name, the name of the organization they represent, their occupation, and a recent photograph of themselves. This requirement aims to enhance safety and transparency for patients receiving in-home care by ensuring that service providers can be easily identified. The bill amends two existing Illinois laws - the Illinois Act on the Aging and the Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act - to implement this new identification requirement, which will help patients and their families feel more secure when receiving home-based care services.

https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=1244&GAID=18&DocTypeID=SB&SessionID=114&GA=104