Process improvement involves the business practice of identifying, analyzing and improving existing business processes to optimize performance, meet best practice standards or simply improve quality and the user experience for customers and end-users. Process improvement strategies strive to minimize errors, reduce waste, improve productivity and streamline efficiency.

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This Dataset is updated nightly and contains all downloadable Medical Examiner-Coroner records, January 1, 2018 to current, related to deaths that occurred in the County of Santa Clara under the Medical Examiner-Coroner’s jurisdiction and those deaths reportable to the Medical Examiner-Coroner (non-jurisdictional cases/NJA) but in which the office did not assume jurisdiction.

The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner- Coroner’s Office determines cause and manner of death for those deaths that fall under the jurisdiction of the Medical Examiner-Coroner, as defined by California Government code 27491.

The Medical Examiner-Coroner will not be responsible for data verification, interpretation or misinformation once data has been downloaded and manipulated from the dashboard.

Refer to the following document to know more of which deaths are reportable:
https://medicalexaminer.sccgov.org/sites/g/files/exjcpb986/files/Reportable%20Death%20Chart%202018.pdf.

The County's Measures of Success focus on metrics related to customer and client experience.

Population by 2010 Census Tract with breakdown by race.

Food Facility Inspection Data 2017 by Department of Environmental Health

Quarterly Statistical Data on Public Assistance Programs administered by County of Santa Clara Social Services Agency in 2018 Quarter 1 (January thru March).

The Coroner Inquests Collection consists of 9,600 reports of corner inquests from 1891 to 1932. Coroner inquests were made to establish a cause of death. Each inquest record includes basic information about the subject of the inquest (name, age, country of birth, and residence at time of death), date of death, and the cause of death established by the inquest. Additional remarks or notes also are sometimes present.
You may search the coroner inquests collection using the index below. Each index entry includes the name of the deceased, his or her birthplace, age, residence at death, date of death, and volume and page location. The Corner Registers, which contain the inquest reports, are available at the County Archives. Additional information about any inquest also may be obtained by contacting the Archives by e-mail or phone.

The purpose of the Santa Clara County Interactive Map Viewer is to provide to all citizens of Santa Clara County an easy graphical means to locate places in the County, and to access information about those locations.