A forensic nurse examiner program has recently expanded at Carilion Rockbridge Community Hospital in Lexington – joining four hospitals in Rocky Mount, Roanoke, the New River Valley and Giles.

In nursing school, Norah Lusk already knew she wanted to work with sexual assault survivors. She had seen how this part of the health care system was “sorely lacking” through victim-blaming, long wait ...

On August 18, 2021, Dr. Sean Dugan sent out a letter to his colleagues. He practices medicine in Redding, which had just reported its highest rates of COVID hospitalizations yet. His message began ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The young womanwho walked into an emergency room in Milwaukee began her journey about 12 hours earlier, at a Chicago-area hospital, more than 90 miles away. She had been raped, ...

On the ground floor of Greater Baltimore Medical Center, behind several locked doors — each monitored by a security camera, is a place where people come on what might be the worst day of their lives.

CARBONDALE, Pa. — Nurses from hospitals and medical facilities gathered Tuesday at the Hotel Anthracite in Carbondale. They're here for Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) training to learn how to ...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — The hospital where Sharita Godwin works in central North Carolina doesn’t have any Black nurses trained in administering forensic exams to sexual assault victims. She’s aiming to ...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - A nurse at St. Joseph Hospital in Bangor has been honored for her work as a Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner. Keri Kapaldo is a nurse at St. Joseph Hospital in Bangor. After ...

If an adult is sexually assaulted in the District, one group of specially trained nurses is called upon to perform a forensic exam should the survivor wish to receive one. And sexual assault occurs ...

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and the team of forensic nurses from Meritus Medical Center want the community to be aware of the issues that continue to grow in our own community. One ...