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The comedian apparently went into cardiac arrest while undergoing a procedure at an outpatient center, and had to be transported to a hospital for emergency care.

The New York Department of Health is still investigating the death of Joan Rivers, who died Thursday when she did not recover from cardiac arrest. Rivers, 81, was at Yorkville Endoscopy, an outpatient surgical center, for an elective procedure when she ceased breathing and her heart suddenly stopped. An autopsy proved inconclusive, the New York chief medical examiner’s office said Friday.

Rivers’ death is raising questions about how outpatient or ambulatory centers are accredited, and what regulations are in place to ensure patient safety. Each state health department oversees such facilities; some are part of hospitals and therefore regulated by the same organizations that oversee hospitals, while others are independently owned and operated by physicians.

http://time.com/3275893/joan-rivers-dead-outpatient-care/