Alliance: Hospital Emergency Rooms
Hospital Emergency Rooms
SAFE / SART Medical Directors and Program Coordinators
In the past, victims of sexual assault seeking medical attention often experienced victim-blaming attitudes and substandard care. In the 1970's, victim advocates began to develop local, state and national reforms to address these problems. Within the last thirty years, in a movement first led by emergency room nurses, care of sexual assault patients has been improved by the development of Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner (SAFE) programs.SAFE programs provide sexual assault patients in emergency rooms or other acute care settings with specially trained clinicians who can provide comprehensive, sensitive, victim-center medical and forensic care. The best standard of care teams these specially trained clinicians with volunteer rape crisis advocates who provide psychosocial support, information and advocacy for sexual assault patients. In New York City, the Health and Hopsital Corporation (HHC) and organized its SAFE programs into SARTs or Sexual Assault Response Teams. Each SART serves the HHC Emergency Departments in a specific borough.
Emergency Rooms with SAFE programs are different from basic hospital care because they focus on:
- Promoting the psychological recovery of survivors;
- Providing comprehensive and consistent post-assault medical care including referral for ongoing care;
- Collecting and documenting forensic evidence completely and accurately;
- Improving the prosecution of sexual assault cases by providing better forensics and expert testimony; and
- Creating community change by bringing multiple service providers together to provide comprehensive care to sexual assault survivors (Campbell 2005).
[1] THIS IS A LIST OF THE SAFE/ SART PROGRAMS THAT HAVE BEEN APPROVED AS New York State Centers of Excellence as of May 9, 2006.
Programs that provide both specialized medical care AND volunteer rape crisis advocates are indicated with a *.
Bronx
Bronx SART (Sexual Assault Response Team) :
Karen Carroll, RN, SANE-A, SART Coordinator (718) 519-5083
North Central Bronx*
Brigitte Alexander, MD, Medical Director (NCB and SART) 718-519-477
Jacobi *
Tesfa Young, MD, Medical Director - 718-918-5477
Lincoln*
Mary Ryan, MD- 718-579-6011
Brooklyn
Long Island College Hospital*Bernie Russell, MD, Medical Director- 718-780-2856
Sarah Hopkins, Program Coordinator- 718-780-1910
Brooklyn SART
SART Coordinator: Alice Blair 718- 613-8113
Kings County Medical Center:
Maria Shaeffer, RN, SANE-A Program Director- 718-245-2883
Woodhull Hospital:
Maurice Wright, MD, Medical Director
Dan McSwiggan, RN, CEN, Program Director- 646-823-6100
Coney Island Hospital:
Marie Longo, RN, SANE-A Program Director- 718-616-4349
Manhattan
St. Luke's-Roosevelt*:Lorraine Giordano, MD, Medical Director- 212-523-5659
Keri Stout, LCWS, SAFE Program Coordinator- 212-523-4727
Columbia Presbyterian*:
Kim Hodges, MD, Medical Director:
Alma Withim, LCSW, Program Coordinator- 212-305-4726
Beth Israel*:
Cheryl Greenstein, PA, Site Director- 212-420-2832
Manhattan SART
Bellevue Hospital*:
Elizabeth Borock, MD, Medical Director- 212-562-3346
Carla Brekke, LCSW, Program Coordinator- 212-562-3435
Harlem Hospital*:
Jenny Castillo, MD, Medical Director- 212-939-2250
Metropolitan Hospital*:
Mona Singh, MD, Medical Director- 212.423.6464
Carlos Meletiche, MD, Medical Director -212.423.6464
Angela Montague, LCSW, Advocacy Coordinator-212.423.7802
Queens
Queens SARTGlenda Guzman, SART Coordinator Queens -- 718.334.3050
Elmhurst*
Sheree Givre, MD Medical Director - 718-334-3052
Rebecca Carman LCSW, SAFE Program Coordinator- 718-334-2732
Queens Hospital*SAFE PROGRAMS THAT HAVE NOT YET BEEN DESIGNATED BY THE NYS DOH.
Leslie Julien, MD Medical Director- 718-883-3070
Kashif Creary, LCSW, SAFE Program Coordinator
Staten Island
Staten Island University Hospital*:Jean Gordon, RN, Medical Director-718-818-3044
Mount Sinai*:
Barbara Richardson, MD, Medical Director:
Kristen Slesar, Program Coordinator- 212.423.2145
[1]: http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/safe/
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