St Michael Medical Center in Silverdale, which is owned by the same network as St. Anthony Hospital, will close one clinic and make changes to its Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner program over the next month.
It remains unclear how staff will be impacted by these alterations.
The first change will shift control of the hospital’s Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program to RSI, a forensic nursing services organization, hospital President Chad Melton wrote in an email.
Outsourcing SANE
SANE services have been locally operated since 1997, but will move under the purview of the Portland-based RSI later this month. RSI provides care at other hospitals in the Virginia Mason Franciscan Health system, a network of 10 hospitals that includes St. Michael and St. Anthony Hospital in Gig Harbor…