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...someone you know should need help, you can call HUHS 24 hours a day. A nurse will speak with you immediately and encourage you (or the patient) to come to HUHS. Once a sexual assault survivor comes to HUHS the physician and nurse provide immediate support and physical and emotional assessment. Our mental health clinicians are on call 24 hours a day and are available for immediate crisis intervention as well as comprehensive long term counseling to assist survivors recovery and healing. The mental health clinicians at HUHS are trained in sexual assault counseling and are available for emergency visits...
...SANE program nurse is one of a team of professionals from the medical, counseling, advocacy and law enforcement fields who will provide care and services at the designated SANE site. They will assess a patient for injuries and provide treatment and protection from unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases...
...must practice in designated emergency departments. Other health care settings, including HUHS, aren't allowed to offer the services of the SANEs. To be a designated SANE site, the hospital must pass a rigorous credentialling process. There are extensive requirements for special laboratory tests, equipment and services to the patient. The DPH made the determination that these requirements could only be met in a setting that an emergency department provides. In addition, a SANE site must have the ability to care for at least 100 sexual assault survivors per year...
...than during Elizabethan England? Protesters will clamor that surely we were able to make at least some cinematic progress with 1993's Academy-award winning film "Philadelphia." But this movie's success only illustrated that audiences across the nation were finally prepared to sympathize with a dying homosexual AIDS patient. Love had not yet entered the picture. And now, almost a decade later, screenwriters alter history and studios still shy away from a homosexual love story because of fear that it won't sell...
...think I would, because of the problem of confidentiality. A patient is given confidentiality, but there are exceptions. If there is a crime planned...there's an obligation to tell the authorities. Under these circumstances, I don't think I could guarantee confidentiality and be helpful...