{"id":1992,"date":"2018-08-17T22:39:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T22:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=1992"},"modified":"2018-08-18T02:38:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T02:38:24","slug":"lax-oversight-leaves-surgery-center-regulators-and-patients-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1992","title":{"rendered":"Lax Oversight Leaves Surgery Center Regulators And Patients In The Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0 By <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/author\/christina-jewett\/\"><strong>Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/author\/mark-alesia-usa-today-network\/\"><strong>Mark Alesia, USA Today Network<\/strong><\/a> <time datetime=\"2018-08-09T10:15:40-04:00\">August 9, 2018<\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div id=\"primary\">\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"template-wide\">\n<article id=\"post-861338\" class=\"post-861338 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-cost-and-quality category-health-industry category-public-health tag-investigation tag-medical-errors tag-patient-safety primary-topic-health-industry funder-john-a-hartford-foundation partners-usa-today\">\n<div class=\"entry-content entry-content-article\">\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<aside class=\"related\">\n<div class=\"slab default-slab\">\n<p class=\"republish\">This story also ran on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/investigations\/2018\/08\/09\/surgery-center-deaths-medicare-reporting-colonoscopy\/868703002\/\">USA Today<\/a>. <span class=\"replublish-story\"> This story can be republished for free (<a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/lax-oversight-leaves-surgery-center-regulators-and-patients-in-the-dark\/view\/republish\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">details<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"related partner-box top\">\n<div class=\"related-content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kaiserhealthnews.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/logo-usatoday24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"39\" height=\"24\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The first man died in April 2014. Another died later that month. Then on July 18 of that year, a woman was rushed to a hospital where she was told she was lucky to be alive.<\/p>\n<p>They all went to the same Little Rock, Ark., surgery center for a colonoscopy, among the safest procedures a patient can have. And each stopped breathing soon afterward, court records say<strong>,<\/strong> sustaining the same type of brain damage seen in a drowning victim. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/lax-oversight-leaves-surgery-center-regulators-and-patients-in-the-dark\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0 By Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News and Mark Alesia, USA Today Network August 9, 2018 This story also ran on USA Today. This story can be republished <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1992\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,59],"tags":[565,757],"class_list":["post-1992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-newsroom","category-patient-safety-activism","tag-healthcare-industry-regulation","tag-surgery-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2006,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}