This week, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) filed emergency rules mandating long-term care facilities comply with infection control practices, including testing all residents and staff for COVID-19. Each facility will be required to develop and implement a testing plan to better protect vulnerable residents and ensure no facility is shirking its responsibilities for those in their care. IDPH is requiring every long-term care facility in Illinois to test all residents and staff for COVID-19 as recommended by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  Each facility will collect specimens and arrange with a laboratory to have them tested.  IDPH will provide training and assistance with testing if needed and will help identify laboratory services if requested.  Each facility will be required to report to public health officials the number of residents and staff tested, and the number of positive, negative, and indeterminate test results. This emergency rule is effective immediately and can be found at https://www.dph.illinois.gov/covid19/governor-pritzkers-executive-orders-and-rules.