The deaths of 150 children weren’t evaluated by a state office tasked with determining if they needed further review, according to an audit.
The Office of Family Advocate (OFA), which is within the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, is in charge of performing Safe System Reviews (SSR) of the deaths of children to identify areas where the system could improve and communicating that information to the state.
An audit released Thursday by the Office of the Auditor General found that the OFA failed to screen 150 deaths of children over a period of 18 months to determine whether circumstances called for an SSR to be completed…