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Does your county coroner office contract with another county for ME services? If no, please indicate who conducts autopsies and related lab testing. If yes, please indicate county (or counties) that provides ME contractual services to your county.

October 29, 2019 |

County

Response

County:  
Albany (Elizabeth Whalen)
Response:  

No. Albany Medical Center.

County:  
Allegany (Lori Ballengee)
Response:  

Yes. Cattaraugus and Monroe Counties.

County:  
Broome (Rebecca Kaufman)
Response:  

No. Lourdes Hospital, UHS or a hospital in Syracuse.

County:  
Cayuga (Kathleen Cuddy)
Response:  

Yes. Onondaga County ME office.

County:  
Chautauqua (Christine Schuyler)
Response:  

Yes. Erie.

County:  
Chemung (Peter Buzzetti)
Response:  

Yes. Monroe County and Lourdes in Broome County.

County:  
Chenango (Marcas Flindt)
Response:  

No.

County:  
Columbia (John Mabb)
Response:  

No.

County:  
Cortland (Catherine Feuerherm)
Response:  

No. Lourdes Hospital.

County:  
Delaware (Amanda Walsh)
Response:  

No.

County:  
Dutchess (AK Vaidian)
Response:  

No. We had contracts in the past.

County:  
Erie (Gale Burstein)
Response:  

Yes. 3.

County:  
Essex (Linda Beers)
Response:  

No.

County:  
Franklin (Katie Strack)
Response:  

Yes. Albany.

County:  
Fulton (Laurel Headwell)
Response:  

Yes. Albany.

County:  
Genesee (Paul Pettit)
Response:  

Yes. Genesee.

County:  
Greene (Greene County Public Health Dept.)
Response:  

Yes. Albany.

County:  
Jefferson (Ginger Hall)
Response:  

No.

County:  
Lewis (Ashley Waite)
Response:  

Yes. Jefferson County.

County:  
Madison (Eric the Red)
Response:  

Yes. Onondaga.

County:  
Monroe (Michael Mendoza, MD)
Response:  

Yes.

County:  
Niagara (Daniel Stapleton)
Response:  

Yes. Erie County.

County:  
Oneida (Phyllis Ellis)
Response:  

No.

County:  
Onondaga (Indu Gupta)
Response:  

Yes. 5.

County:  
Ontario (Mary Beer)
Response:  

Yes. Forensic cases with Monroe ME and all others go to a local pathologist.

County:  
Orange (Irina Gelman)
Response:  

No.

County:  
Orleans (Paul Pettit)
Response:  

Yes. Monroe.

County:  
Oswego (Jiancheng Huang)
Response:  

Yes. Onondaga.

County:  
Otsego (Heidi Bond)
Response:  

Yes. Broome (I think).

County:  
Putnam (Kathleen Percacciolo)
Response:  

No. Sub-contract with a pathologist from Westchester who performs the autopsies at Putnam Hospital Center.

County:  
Rensselaer (Maryfran Wachunas)
Response:  

No.

County:  
Rockland (Dr. Ruppert)
Response:  

No.

County:  
Saratoga (Catherine Duncan)
Response:  

Yes. Rensselaer.

County:  
Schenectady (Lisa Ayers)
Response:  

Yes. 2-3.

County:  
Schuyler (Deborah Minor)
Response:  

Yes.

County:  
Seneca (Vickie Swinehart)
Response:  

Yes. Monroe County.

County:  
St. Lawrence (Dana McGuire)
Response:  

Yes. Jefferson — primarily. For forensic cases we were using Albany but our ability to use them ceases on November 1.

County:  
Steuben (Darlene Smith)
Response:  

Yes.

County:  
Suffolk (James Tomarken)
Response:  

Don’t know.

County:  
Tompkins (Brenda Grinnell Crosby)
Response:  

No.

County:  
Ulster (Carol Smith, MD, MPH)
Response:  

No.

County:  
Warren (Patricia Belden)
Response:  

No.

County:  
Wayne (Diane Devlin)
Response:  

Yes. Monroe County.

County:  
Wyoming (Laura Paolucci)
Response:  

Yes. Monroe County Medical Examiner.

County:  
Yates (Deborah Minor)
Response:  

Yes. Monroe County.

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