The new law will require hospitals to train enough nurses to ensure sexual assault victims coming to the emergency room will receive treatment from a trained provider within 90 minutes.
In early March 2018, a separate Chicago Tribune report found only 32 nurses of the more than 196,000 registered in Illinois are certified to work with adult patients who’ve experienced a sexual assault.
Hospitals have until January 2022 to comply with the new law.
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