A new amendment to legislation in Illinois designed to improve the medical community's response to sexual assault calls for hospitals to train nurses in sexual assault care by 2021.
The initial proposal set the deadline for 2023. Under the bill, hospitals would have to have a specially trained medical provider present within 90 minutes of a sexual assault patient's arrival.
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association says the time frame would not give hospitals enough time to train an estimated 650 nurses that would be needed to meet the proposed standard.
