GBMC to open SAFE suite
From The Baltimore Sun
October 13, 2006
Greater Baltimore Medical Center will open its new Sexual Assault Forensic Examination suite on Monday.
The suite, with nurses trained to help victims of sexual assault, will have private and confidential office and examination space, room for detectives to work, and facilities for evidence processing, GBMC officials said.
The nurses assigned to the SAFE unit had been using whatever space was available in the main emergency department for their exams and interviews.
The new, four-room SAFE suite, dedicated solely to caring for sexual assault cases, includes an exam room, a bathroom where patients can shower, a room for law enforcement officers to interview patients and complete reports, and office space, officials said.
GBMC has been operating the SAFE program, one of 19 statewide, since 1988 and is the only hospital in Baltimore County with a unit dedicated to treating victims of sexual assault who are age 13 and older, GBMC officials said.
