{"id":"AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-094","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Michigan - Department of Health and Human Services (State health department)","state":"MI","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS","eco":"","issuer":"Robert Gordon, Director, MDHHS","authority":"MCL 333.2253 (recited)","instrument":"Emergency Order Under MCL 333.2253 - COVID-19 Death Reporting","title":"Funeral directors must initiate the death record within 24 hours of learning that a death resulted or is suspected to have resulted from COVID-19 and must initiate and report all deaths through Michigan\u0027s electronic death registration system; physicians to convey cause-of-death information promptly","dateIssued":"2020-04-04","effective":"immediately; \u0027remains in effect until lifted\u0027","end":"lifted (MI file records the June 2021 rescissions)","startDate":"2020-04-04","endDate":"2021-06-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2"],"types":["EMP","OTHER"],"addressees":["funeral directors subject to MCL 333.2843(3)","attending physicians"],"clause":"MCL 333.2843(3) requires funeral directors to certify death records and file those records with the local [registrar]... this timeline must be expedited where COVID-19 is identified as a cause of death.... 2. Where a funeral director learns that a death resulted or is suspected to have resulted from COVID-19, funeral directors subject to MCL 333.2843(3) are required to: a. Initiate the death record and submit to the attending physician or representative as defined in MCL 333.2843(1)(a) within 24 hours of becoming aware that the death resulted or is [suspected to have resulted from COVID-19]... 3. Funeral directors subject to MCL 333.2843(3) must initiate and report all deaths via Michigan\u0027s [Electronic Death Registration System]... This order is effective immediately and remains in effect until lifted. Date: April 4, 2020","enforcement":"MCL 333.2261 (misdemeanor)","functions":["FH funeral homes (death-record initiation within 24 hours; mandatory electronic filing)","OF administration","CB hospitals and physicians as counterparties"],"notes":"One of the two Michigan death-care orders (with 095) named in the cluster assignment.","sourceUrl":"https://www.michigan.gov/documents/coronavirus/MDHHS_epidemic_order_-_death_reporting_signed_685875_7.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200406/https://www.michigan.gov/documents/coronavirus/MDHHS_epidemic_order_-_death_reporting_signed_685875_7.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":211760,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS","url":"/library/AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-094","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-094","citation":"Robert Gordon, Director, MDHHS, Emergency Order Under MCL 333.2253 - COVID-19 Death Reporting (Apr. 4, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-094)","stateName":"Michigan","related":["AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-095"]}