(a) Each hospital in this State shall enter into agreements or affiliations with procurement organizations for coordination of procurement and use of anatomical gifts.
     (b) Hospitals shall proceed in accordance with the applicable requirements of 42 C.F.R. § 482.45 or any successor provisions of federal statute or regulation, as may be amended from time to time, with regard to collaboration with procurement organizations to facilitate organ, tissue, and eye donation.

Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 755 ILCS 50/5-25

  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.36
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • State: when applied to different parts of the United States, may be construed to include the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" may be construed to include the said district and territories. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 5 ILCS 70/1.14
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.

     In making a request for organ or tissue donation, the hospital or the hospital’s federally designated organ procurement organization or tissue bank shall request any of the persons, in the order of priority stated in items (1) through (11) below, when persons in prior classes are not available and in the absence of (i) actual notice of contrary intentions by the decedent, (ii) actual notice of opposition by any member within the same priority class, and (iii) reason to believe that an anatomical gift is contrary to the decedent’s religious beliefs, to authorize the gift of all or any part of the decedent’s body for any purpose specified in Section 5-12:
         (1) an individual acting as the decedent’s agent
    
under a power of attorney for health care;
        (2) the guardian of the person of the decedent;
         (3) the spouse or civil union partner of the
    
decedent;
        (4) an adult child of the decedent;
         (5) a parent of the decedent;
         (6) an adult sibling of the decedent;
         (7) an adult grandchild of the decedent;
         (8) a grandparent of the decedent;
         (9) a close friend of the decedent;
         (10) the guardian of the estate of the decedent; and
         (11) any other person authorized or under legal
    
obligation to dispose of the body.
    (c) (Blank).
     (d) (Blank).