Lisa Madigan pushes for bill to require training before treating sexual assault patients [chicagotribune.com]

Alicia Doktor 4/12/184:00 AM

Attorney General Lisa Madigan called on legislators Wednesday to require that state hospitals have a trained medical provider available to treat sexual assault patients.

“After years of unwillingness and delay, this bill, if it becomes law, will finally require Illinois hospitals to do what they should have been doing all along,” she said. “I think it should be a moral obligation, but because it hasn’t worked that way, we’ll make it a legal obligation.”

Just 32 nurses in Illinois are certified by the International Association of Forensic Nurses to work with adult sexual assault patients. Twelve sexual assault nurse examiners, known as SANE or forensic nurses, are certified to treat children. There are more than 196,000 registered nurses in Illinois.

[For more on this story by Alison Bowen, go to http://www.chicagotribune.com/...tion-0405-story.html]

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