{"id":5764,"date":"2017-02-02T12:33:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T17:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5764"},"modified":"2017-02-02T12:33:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T17:33:44","slug":"medicare-patient-deaths-shortly-after-leaving-the-er-raise-questions-about-rural-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5764","title":{"rendered":"Medicare patient deaths shortly after leaving the ER raise questions about rural hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Casey Ross for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">A <\/span>new study on Medicare patients dying soon after emergency department discharges raises questions about staffing and treatment at rural hospitals and other providers who are under pressure to reduce health care costs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/02\/01\/medicare-emergency-room-deaths-hospitals\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz--77GenDIj_w8GrOcOywLUCqhCwoV37HAJmpkZKr3t5yM0iWUeWlZZWpspyotRG8jnGS8EwreskQ4r0TWpOWKbqRIdrPg&amp;_hsmi=41851067\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"stat-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Casey Ross for STAT) A new study on Medicare patients dying soon after emergency department discharges raises questions about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5765,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764\/revisions\/5765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}