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Board approves MOU with Madera Community Hospital for morgue services; hospital says state approval could clear reopening
Summary
The Board of Supervisors approved an updated memorandum of understanding authorizing the coroner’s office to provide morgue services for Madera Community Hospital, a step county and hospital staff said is needed to meet CDPH requirements as the hospital seeks license approval to reopen.
The Madera County Board of Supervisors on March 13 approved a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the sheriff’s office/coroner’s office and Madera Community Hospital to allow the coroner’s office to take custody of decedents and provide morgue services while the hospital lacks an on‑site morgue.
Lieutenant Blum of the sheriff’s office presented the MOU and said hospitals sometimes lack capacity to store decedents who do not fall under coroner jurisdiction. He said the agreement was amended before the meeting to clarify that financial responsibility for decedent disposition, when remains stay in‑county, would not rest solely with the hospital…
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