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- A department that performs autopsies on the city’s dead bodies is now fully accredited for the first time in a decade. The San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner became fully accredited in November, according to the City Administrator’s Office. The accreditation amounts to an endorsement by a national professional organization.
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SF Office of the Chief Medical Examiner Achieves Full Accreditation. December 15, 2022. See more news. Resources. OCME Annual Reports. Includes charts on deaths involving vehicles, deaths involving firearms, suicides and childhood deaths. Accidental Overdose Reports.
Dec 15, 2022 · To achieve full accreditation, OCME had to satisfy, without interruption, the completion of autopsy and toxicology reports in a timely manner (within 90 days in at least 90% of cases) and balancing of medical examiner caseloads.
Dec 21, 2021 · These changes include prioritizing issuance of final death certificates, using toxicology testing to certify cause of death in fatal accidental overdose cases, implementing new policy to triage autopsies, and modernizing internal operating systems.
Dec 15, 2022 · A department that performs autopsies on the city’s dead bodies is now fully accredited for the first time in a decade. The San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner became fully accredited in November, according to the City Administrator’s Office.
Dec 21, 2021 · San Francisco’s medical examiner’s office has regained its national accreditation, four years after losing it amid a maelstrom of troubles including a backlog in death reports, inadequate...
- Michael Cabanatuan
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Autopsies must be endorsed by an attending physician and must have signed consent from the legal next-of-kin (or designated durable power of attorney for healthcare). The Office of Patient Relations (415-353-1936) may assist the physicians and families in completing the necessary paperwork.
Dec 6, 2015 · Clearing a backlog of autopsies isn’t exactly the most glamorous job, but when Dr. Michael Hunter became San Francisco’s chief medical examiner in March, that was the main goal.
