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Spokane County seeks renewed data-sharing with health district as overdose rates climb
Summary
Spokane County public-health officials requested two interlocal agreements with the Spokane Regional Health District to continue a child fatality review panel and to join a new adult overdose and suicide death review panel, while county data show overdose death rates rising through early 2025.
The Spokane County medical examiner’s office asked the Board of County Commissioners on June 24 to renew an interlocal agreement with the Spokane Regional Health District for the child fatality multidisciplinary case review panel and to begin a new interlocal agreement to participate in an adult overdose and suicide death review panel.
The request, presented by Dr. Singh of the medical examiner’s office, calls for Spokane County to provide data and record access to the health district and for a county pathologist to participate on the panels. "They are convening an adult fatality death review panel. And this is, specifically to review deaths caused by overdose and suicide…
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