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By Christina Hinkle posted 12-31-2012 11:16 AM

  
I was wondering if I could survey any SANE program that delivers services to multiple hospitals? Here are a three of the questions I would intend on asking and this would be completely anonymous unless you want your facility mentioned. And let me know if I may share your information with other programs.

1. Do the SANEs go to all of the hospitals or are the patients sent to a centralized location?

2. What if the patient is an inpatient and unable to travel to the centralized location?

3. How is the program funded?

I am using this for my masters degree as well as trying to set up a community SANE program.

Thanks,
Christina

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Pamela Clark
12-12-2013 07:31 PM

I live in the Hill Country of Central Texas. Our program is called the Hill Country Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners and we serve 2 hospitals and one Children's Advocacy Center. I'm sorry I'm reading this almost a year after the post. Here is our answer to the above questions:
1. We all must go to each of the hospitals, but if the on-call SANE is already performing an exam at one facility we can ask if LE will consider taking the patient there to save time, but if the patient is already at one facility we generally just go to that facility. The hospitals and the CAC are in towns 30 miles apart.
2. We go to the facility in which the patient is an inpatient. This has only occurred once, by the way.
3. Law Enforcement in TX is required to pay for the exam and any thing related to the investigation. The patients' insurance (if any) is billed for medical treatment (fractures, surgical repair, etc.). Crime Victims Compensation reimburses the patient for many out of pocket expenses. The individual SANEs are credentialed as Allied Health at each of the facilities and individually bill for their services directly to the LE agency. Equipment (3 colposcopes) were acquired by grants and donations and the individual supplies by the hospital for lab specimens, collection kits, sponges, EHR software, etc.