{"id":12218,"date":"2018-12-17T08:36:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T13:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12218"},"modified":"2018-12-17T08:37:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T13:37:33","slug":"assisted-livings-breakneck-growth-leaves-patient-safety-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12218","title":{"rendered":"Assisted Living\u2019s Breakneck Growth Leaves Patient Safety Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jordan Rau for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>They found Bonnie Walker\u2019s body floating in a pond behind her assisted living facility in South Carolina. There were puncture wounds on her ear, her temple, her jaw and her cheeks.<\/p>\n<p>Her right forearm and her pacemaker were inside one of the alligators that lived in the pond. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/assisted-livings-breakneck-growth-leaves-patient-safety-behind\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=68374970&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8fwP0Hy3IFRJrX_7gngybywywsmNHKpRk5ATLCyl0OaIDfGTofdINTakn1nuorXZ7PN66vT0q0YRsfNtngjbO073l8RA&amp;_hsmi=68374970\">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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