{"id":15719,"date":"2014-09-05T08:29:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T06:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=15719"},"modified":"2014-09-05T08:29:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T06:29:57","slug":"us-state-health-department-probe-joan-rivers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=15719","title":{"rendered":"US State health department probe Joan Rivers&#8217; death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The clinic where <a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14583\">Joan Rivers<\/a> was undergoing a procedure prior to her hospitalization and death is now under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The New York State Health Department told ABC News that it has opened a &#8220;full investigation&#8221; into Yorkville Endoscopy Center in New York City to determine whether the clinic would be cited for violations.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have already visited the clinic. &#8220;It&#8217;s extremely unusual for an investigation to occur this quickly,&#8221; said Jeffrey J. Shapiro, a Manhattan medical malpractice attorney.<\/p>\n<p>Rivers had called President Obama \u201cgay\u201d in recent months and described Michelle Obama as a &#8220;tranny&#8221;, or a transgender. She had also openly supported the ethnic cleansing campaign against Palestinians in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The intense publicity surrounding Rivers&#8217; death could also have prompted the probe.<\/p>\n<p>Yorkville Endoscopy was established in 2013 and was inspected by the State Health Department prior to opening. To date, there have been no complaints or violations regarding the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Rivers, 81, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan on Aug. 28 after an emergency call reported she was in cardiac arrest at Yorkville Endoscopy.<\/p>\n<p>Rivers had been unconscious and sedated since her arrival at Mount Sinai, but died Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clinic where Joan Rivers was undergoing a procedure prior to her hospitalization and death is now under investigation. The New York State Health Department told ABC News that it has opened a &#8220;full investigation&#8221; into Yorkville Endoscopy Center in New York City to determine whether the clinic would be cited for violations. Investigators have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=15719\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;US State health department probe Joan Rivers&#8217; death&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[1008,286,178,9470,287,1638],"class_list":["post-15719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-death","tag-gaza","tag-israel","tag-joan-rivers","tag-palestinians","tag-us"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15720,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15719\/revisions\/15720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}