D.C. Mayor Vince Gray said on TBDNewstalk Thursday monring that he’s “just finding out about” the D.C. medical examiner’s office losing accreditation more than two months after it happened.
The medical examiner’s office was first informed that it was losing its provisional accreditation in February because the chief medical examiner isn’t board certified. A final appeal of the decision was rejected in March.
Gray also said he’ll work with the National Association of Medical Examiners to see what he can do. He then said he played a similar role with the accrediting agency when he was head of the Department of Human Services in the early 1990s.
“Interestingly enough, I worked to get this accreditation when I was with DHS many years ago,” Gray said.
Also interesting: The medical examiner’s office didn’t get accreditation until 2008.
