York County will have a new morgue with more space by Spring 2021
Overcrowding and overflowing in the morgue have persisted, leaving taxpayers to foot the bill to help pay for cremations if the county cannot locate family members. Author: Rachel Yonkunas (FOX43) Updated: 10:36 PM EST December 20, 2020
YORK COUNTY, Pa. York County has been the only county in the mid-state without its own morgue. Next year, that will change as construction on the county’s new morgue moves along.
Work on the new county morgue is expected to wrap up by mid-February, with the hope that the morgue can be in use by April 2021. Currently, the county shares their morgue with WellSpan York Hospital and there is only enough room to hold about nine deceased adults for a county with a population of nearly 450,000.