RFP/RFQ - Medical Examiner Services

DESCHUTES COUNTY
Request for Qualifications
Medical Examiner Services

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

The Medical Examiner manages investigations of deaths for the purposes of determining cause and manner of death and producing death certificates in accordance with ORS 146 and in line with the recommendations and requirements of the State Medical Examiner’s Office. This includes deaths due to injuries, those occurring under suspicious circumstances, and those of individuals not under the care of a physician. Currently, the Deschutes County Medical Examiner oversees an average of 60 cases each month.

The Medical Examiner is responsible for the investigation of all human deaths requiring investigation; certifying the manner and the cause of all deaths investigated and filing a certificate of death as required by ORS 432.133.

The Medical Examiner is also responsible for reporting of death investigations to the State Medical Examiner, supervising medical-legal death investigators, maintaining a roster of active county medical-legal death investigators, ensuring consistent and accurate documentation of cases in the medical examiner information system, and coordinating with the District Attorney’s Office, law enforcement agencies, local funeral homes, and families of the deceased.

The Medical Examiner’s Office also reviews invoices from funeral homes and oversees the Medical Death Investigation Team rotation schedule for fairness and equity.

The contractor must also comply with provisions of ORS 279B.220, 279B.225, 279B.230 and 279B.235.

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