On behalf of the Department of Health, would you please share this information with the members of PENA?
Act 164 of 2018, the Sexual Assault Testing and Evidence Collection Act, requires health care facilities to contact the Department of Health in cases where local law enforcement agencies have been notified to take possession of sexual assault evidence but they have not done so within 72 hours. To report this information, please go to the Department of Health’s website at www.health.pa.gov and click on Reporting and Registries under the I’m Looking for tab. The contact phone number that is provided (717.346.4740) directs the caller to the Department of Health’s website. Please be sure to submit your information through the Department’s website because there is no voice mail option with this telephone number. All information will be collected from the Department’s website at www.health.pa.gov. Thank you.
For more information about Act 164:
https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/Legis/LI/uconsCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&yr=2018&sessInd=0&smthLwInd=0&act=164
Thank you,
Lori Gutierrez
Lori Gutierrez, MPA | Executive Policy Specialist
Pennsylvania Department of Health | Policy Office
8th Floor West, Health & Welfare Building
625 Forster Street | Harrisburg, PA 17120
Phone: 717.317.5426
www.health.state.pa.us