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CRIS Program - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME)
 
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Title Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME)
Agency Division of Public Health
Division of Public Health
Epidemiology
Web http://www.ocme.unc.edu
Description The Medical Examiner system investigates all unnatural, suspicious, traumatic, or unattended deaths in North Carolina through a network of county medical examiners and regional pathologists to provide timely, accurate reports of investigative results to families, law enforcement agencies and other interested parties. Through its Child Fatality Prevention Team, the program reviews and further investigates child deaths and provides training to law enforcement, health care and other local agencies on proper techniques for child death investigations.
Grantee Eligibility This program does not provide financial assistance grants.
Fund 14430-1420
State $4,485,160.00
Federal $329,099.00
Other $1,595,448.00
Funding Year 2008
Keywords children,  death,  autopsy
Assistance null; null