{"id":260320,"date":"2013-05-29T11:40:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T16:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=260320"},"modified":"2013-05-30T11:26:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T16:26:43","slug":"state-hospitals-face-reform-deadlines-east-texans-death-a-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=260320","title":{"rendered":"State Facilities Face Reform Deadlines; East Texan&#8217;s Death a Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/05\/Terrell-State-Hospital.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/05\/Terrell-State-Hospital-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Terrell State Hospital\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-260339\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN (AP\/Staff) &#8211; Two state facilities face June deadlines to reform hazardous conditions or lose millions of dollars in Medicaid money &#8212; and the death of an East Texas woman is part of the reason.    The Austin American-Statesman reports that Terrell State Hospital faces a June 4 deadline to implement reforms or face the loss of Medicare funding. That&#8217;s after Medicare investigators found significant nursing and patient rights problems in the wake of the February 2012 death of patient Ann Simmons.  An autopsy blamed the death of the 62-year-old Pittsburg woman three days after her arrival on a pulmonary embolism related to restraints used on her.  <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>The Statesman also reports the Austin State Supported Living Center faces a June 17 deadline to make significant improvements or face the loss of Medicaid funding. That&#8217;s after incidents that left one resident dead and two injured severely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP\/Staff) &#8211; Two state facilities face June deadlines to reform hazardous conditions or lose millions of dollars in Medicaid money &#8212; and the death of an East Texas woman is part of the reason. The Austin American-Statesman reports that Terrell State Hospital faces a June 4 deadline to implement reforms or face the loss &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=260320\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">State Facilities Face Reform Deadlines; East Texan&#8217;s Death a Factor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 03:28:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260320"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260534,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260320\/revisions\/260534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}