From crisis to model: Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s Office sets national standard
OKLAHOMA CITY – Once a failing state agency, the Oklahoma State Medical Examiner’s Office has regained full accreditation this month and is now setting a high standard for the country. It has taken the agency more than a decade of rebuilding to pass a national review.
The Oklahoma City and Tulsa medical examiner’s offices lost accreditation in 2009 and now 15 years later both passed final reviews in October. The state’s Chief Medical Examiner Doctor Eric Pfeifer gave News 9 a tour of what he said is a state-of-the-art facility serving Oklahomans…