Franklin County commissioners named Dr. Andrea McCollom acting coroner after Dr. Anahi Ortiz retired. McCollom previously worked in Cuyahoga County.
in January. Three now work for or operate their own private pathology companies in Dayton, Toledo and North Carolina. The fourth now works for Vermont's chief medical examiner.
"The reason I left is because I felt the coroner's office had become a poor work environment due to poor leadership," Dr. Maneesha Pandey told The Dispatch previously. Pandey now works as chief forensic pathologist for The Forensic Pathologists LLC, a private practice based in suburban Toledo. The departures forced the county to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on contracts with Montgomery and Hamilton counties as well as independent pathologists to perform autopsies in order to keep up, and to have pathologists available to testify in criminal court cases. Some family and survivors complained about delays with autopsy reports that took weeks and months longer to be completed.
After the departures, Ortiz's office focused on recruitment efforts, increasing salaries for pathologists by tens of thousands of dollars a year amid a nationwide shortage of pathologists. Now, with a nearly full staff of six fulltime pathologists and a pathology assistant, the county is able to handle all of its own autopsies, according to the office.
Before she left herself, Ortiz through the office's media spokesperson declined a request from The Dispatch for an interview about her eight-year tenure as the county's official death investigator.Not long after taking office in 2014, Ortiz began noticing an unprecedented rise in overdose deaths and set out to do something about it.
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