{"id":11152,"date":"2018-08-11T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11152"},"modified":"2018-08-10T08:18:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T12:18:55","slug":"lax-oversight-leaves-surgery-center-regulators-and-patients-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11152","title":{"rendered":"Lax Oversight Leaves Surgery Center Regulators And Patients In The Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News and Mark Alesia, USA Today Network)<\/p>\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,\u00a0sustaining 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\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=65110130&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8sCiJA6YvSThTGfGu31LjV6yeRX5vRwPb3m9GECS3xG-mqQ1_L1UmFxE81QS1AOx_dQoo3rhU2XYQkkz1ZPiV7vyMZFQ&amp;_hsmi=65110130\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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