New medical examiner’s office will put Johnson County on cutting edge of autopsies

In 2016, voters of Johnson County passed a Law Enforcement Sales Tax that’s paying for a new courthouse and a medical examiner’s office. It’s a one-of-a-kind facility that will serve not only Johnson County, but eventually, the region. Johnson County Medical Examiner Dr. Diane Peterson has been working to build, staff and develop policies for this state of the art medical examiner’s office for a year and a half. Slated to begin operation at the end of July, it will be the first time in the county’s history it hasn’t relied on a private coroner for autopsies. It’s one of few facilities in the country to have a C.T. scanner and the only facility in Kansas or Missouri to have Lodox full body x-ray technology.
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