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Medical examiner seeks new investigator pay tier, cites transport strain and rising autopsy costs
Summary
Johnson County Medical Examiner Clayton Schuman proposed a new MEI 2 classification to improve succession planning and retention after a year of heavy transports to the state office, an increase in accepted cases and higher autopsy-related costs.
Clayton Schuman, director of the Johnson County Medical Examiner, told the Board of Supervisors on Jan. 7 that his department is proposing a Medical Examiner Investigator 2 (MEI 2) pay grade to help retain experienced investigators and improve succession planning.
Schuman said maintaining the department’s full accreditation from the National Association of Medical Examiners and absorbing transport burdens after a physician left last year have strained staff and vehicles. “We were 1% under our budgeted expenditures and 9% over on our budgeted revenues, so we were able to meet that goal,” he said when summarizing the department’s fiscal performance while describing staffing pressures.
The nut graf: the county medical examiner says limited staffing forced repeated transports of decedents to the state medical examiner in Ankeny last year, increasing overtime and vehicle costs. Schuman proposed creating…
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