A&M Regents designate land for medical examiner's office - Bryan-College Station Eagle

The Texas A&M University System’s Board of Regents authorized the disposition of astir 2.5 acres astatine A&M’s Health Science Center successful Bryan arsenic a aboriginal tract for a Brazos County aesculapian examiner’s bureau astatine their gathering Thursday.

Regents approved the disposition successful unfastened league aft discussing it successful enforcement session. This support is the adjacent measurement successful bringing a aesculapian examiner’s bureau to the county, which volition beryllium a collaboration betwixt Brazos County and Texas A&M.

“The Brazos Valley is 1 of the larger municipality areas successful the authorities that doesn’t person a aesculapian examiner, truthful that means erstwhile we person to woody with things similar autopsies, families person to hold galore months to get the results back, which tin beryllium hard arsenic you tin imagine, and our instrumentality enforcement besides has to hold to get results,” said Greg Hartman, A&M’s main operating officer.

Brazos County Judge Duane Peters said the adjacent measurement is moving retired technical, ineligible details. Last month, the Brazos County Commissioner’s Court agreed to acceptable speech $24 cardinal of funds from the American Rescue Plan Act for a aesculapian examiner’s office.

“We jumped a mates of large hurdles, but we’ve got a small mode to go,” Peters said. “We haven’t tried to acceptable a timetable, but we privation to get going arsenic soon arsenic we can.”

Currently, astir autopsies from Brazos County are done successful Austin, according to Hartman. A work country for a aesculapian examiner’s bureau successful Brazos County hasn’t been defined, but helium said country counties would payment from having the bureau successful Bryan.

Hartman and Peters some noted a payment of having a aesculapian examiner’s bureau successful the region are the acquisition opportunities for A&M’s Health Science Center.

“Having a much robust pathology programme that is built into moving the aesculapian examiner’s office, which is what’s going to hap here, is going to amended the world teachings astatine the aesculapian schoolhouse and it’s besides going to springiness america probe opportunities that volition beryllium significant,” Hartman said.

Although there’s nary timeline for the bureau to open, Peters said helium hopes A&M and region officials tin marque an announcement successful the adjacent fewer months.

“Having the quality to bash the autopsies present section alternatively than person to nonstop bodies retired of the county, I deliberation that’s a immense payment for immoderate of the families who person idiosyncratic walk distant that requires an autopsy,” Peters said. “I deliberation we tin have, I hope, 1 of the champion aesculapian examiner’s offices successful the authorities with this collaboration with A&M. I spot that arsenic being a truly large positive.”