Recommendation R3.5
The Medical Examiner should add support staff to address the expected additional premature and undetermined deaths.
Jury report: Our Medical Examiner’s Challenge: Providing State-of-the-Art Services in a Confined, Aging Facility · PDF page 172
Permanent linkOfficial response
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors (consolidated County departmental response)
Agency says implementedCounty agrees and reports implementation through staffing increases over the past two fiscal years, including investigators and a forensic pathologist assistant position, linked to premature and undetermined death investigations and pathologist shortages.
Read official response · PDF page 42Editorial engagement review of the answer, not confirmation of implementation. County agrees and reports implementation through staffing increases over the past two fiscal years, including investigators and a forensic pathologist assistant position, linked to premature and undetermined death investigations and pathologist shortages. Report physical PDF page(s) 172; County response physical PDF page(s) 42. Claims remain attributed; adoption date is not a filing or receipt date.
This review evaluates the response document. Implementation claims have not been independently verified.