Fifteen years ago, Karen D. Carroll, RN, SANE-A, NY-SAFE, was raped by her then-husband and had to show an ED physician how to collect the evidence.
Today, the Yonkers, NY, resident is associate director of the Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) at North Central Bronx Hospital (NCBH), providing trained forensic examiners to NCBH and two other public hospitals in the Bronx: Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center and Jacobi Medical Center, all part of the New York City Health and Hospital Corp. SART sees approximately 200 cases a year.
SARTs combine medicine, law enforcement and victim advocacy to ensure sexual assault victims receive appropriate medical attention, evidentiary examinations, emotional support and referral information.
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