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Medical examiner presents 2024 report and asks county to consider CT scanner; discloses management company relationship
Summary
The county medical examiner’s representative presented the 2024 annual report on unexpected deaths and asked the board to consider installing a CT scanner to support virtual autopsies and better forensic data collection.
The county's medical examiner representative delivered the 2024 annual report on unexpected deaths in Montcalm County, highlighted patterns in drug‑involved deaths and recommended exploring a CT scanner to support virtual autopsies and improved data collection.
Lisa (medical examiner representative) reported a 6.8 percent increase in the number of unexpected deaths and noted that heart disease led causes while unintentional injuries accounted for about 22 percent of cases. She emphasized the value of richer scene data to inform prevention efforts and drew parallels to earlier public‑health initiatives that used data to change practice (for example, sudden infant death investigations that contributed to…
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