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42 U.S. Code § 280g-4a. Understanding sexual assault care in health systems
(a) Purpose
It is the purpose of this section to identify areas for improvement in health care delivery systems providing forensic examinations to survivors of sexual assault.
(b) GrantsThe Secretary of Health and Human Services (referred to in this section as “the Secretary”) shall award grants to States and Indian Tribes to develop and implement State and Tribal surveys to identify—
(1)
the availability of, and patient access to, medical forensic examinations;
(2)
the training level of the health care providers who perform medical forensic examinations;
(3)
the hospitals or clinics that offer medical forensic examinations and whether each hospital or clinic has full-time, part-time, or on-call coverage;