Bodies
of victims are being autopsied in Frankfort FAMILIES ARE ASKED TO PROVIDE DENTAL
RECORDS The bodies of all 49 crash victims have been taken to
the state central laboratory in Frankfort for autopsies and identification.
By
8:30 p.m. last night, when the work was ending for the night, the initial autopsies
had been performed on 16 to 17 bodies, said Stacy Floden, spokeswoman for the
state Justice and Public Safety Cabinet.
She said the autopsies would continue at 7:30 this
morning.
Floden said initial examinations involve trying to find some identification,
such as wallets, on the bodies.
She did not know how long it would take
to co
mplete all the autopsies, but she noted that the first bodies were
received at the state lab about 4:15 p.m. yesterday, and that the initial work
was done in about four hours.
She said Drs. Emily Craig and Tracey Corey,
both with the state Medical Examiner's Office, were at the crash scene and not
at the lab.
Results
of the state's dental HMO experiment for children on Medicaid are in, but they
don't show if the new approach is better than the old. That's unacceptable. The
project was to improve access to dental care for 200,000 Miami-Dade children on
Medicaid, reducing fraud and state costs in the process. The idea was to switch
them to HMO coverage in 2004 and away from standard fee-for-service Medicaid.
Access
to rural dental care remains sparse
