Comedian Joan Rivers died in a New
York hospital Thursday afternoon, a week after suffering cardiac arrest during
a medical procedure, her daughter said. “She passed peacefully at 1:17 p.m.
surrounded by family and close friends,” Melissa Rivers said in a written statement.
Rivers, 81, had been on life support at Manhattan’s Mount Sinai hospital, where
she was taken after she stopped breathing at the Yorkville Endoscopy clinic
last Thursday. The outpatient clinic is now being
investigated by the New York State Department of Health, spokesman
James O’Hara said. “My son and I would like to thank the doctors, nurses, and
staff of Mount Sinai Hospital for the amazing care they provided for my
mother,” her daughter said. “Cooper and I have found ourselves humbled by the
outpouring of love, support, and prayers we have received from around the
world. They have been heard and appreciated. ‘Rivers was undergoing an
apparently minor elective procedure at the clinic when she suffered cardiac and
respiratory arrest, according to the New York Fire Department. Paramedics took
her by ambulance to Mount Sinai Hospital, about a mile from the clinic, where
she was initially listed in critical condition.The Rivers family made very
little information about her medical condition public, finally confirming
Tuesday that she was on life support.
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