Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE)

The Philadelphia Sexual Assault Response Center’s (PSARC) team of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE) provides treatment and evidence collection to adult victims of acute sexual assault in the clinical setting. The specially trained SANE can provide post-exposure prophylactic care and traumatic injury screening, as well as collect forensic photographs, rape kit swabbing, toxicologic sampling, and clinical forensic narrative development.

SANEs are responsible for serving as professional fact witnesses in the court of law and are liable to subpoena for providing testimony on behalf of the clinical forensic examination. SANEs are dispatched on a 24/7 basis to operate both within the PSARC center as well as in the community by responding to inpatient hospital settings as requested.