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Dunn County health department to lead overdose fatality reviews; CJCC accepts oversight
Summary
The Dunn County Health Department will facilitate a new Overdose Fatality Review Team; the CJCC agreed to serve as the governance oversight body and will receive an annual report. The team will meet roughly twice a year and use opioid-settlement funds for startup support.
The Dunn County Health Department will serve as the neutral convening agency for a new Overdose Fatality Review Team that will examine individual overdose deaths to identify system changes aimed at preventing future fatalities, public health educator Lindsay Wyatt told the Criminal Justice Collaborating Council on the record.
The CJCC agreed to act as the governance oversight body for the review team and voted to accept the proposal. The council will receive an annual update on trends and recommendations from the review team, and the team itself plans to meet twice a year, Wyatt said.
The review model brings multidisciplinary experts—law enforcement, behavioral health providers, emergency-department clinicians, the medical…
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