Tuesday 26 November 21:30:36 1732678236

Arkansas Continued Care Hospital (ACCH) was self-described as a Long Term Acute Care Hospital. There is no such thing and the law governing such facilities made no use of the term. The fact is that an acutely ill or injured patient should not be in a long term care facility - they should be in a hospital capable of stabilizing them and placed in a LTCH only when they are no longer in danger. ACCH had no emergency room or capability of dealing with emergency care or a conditional change causing imminent danger of death.

ACCH was supposedly a recovery and rehabilitation facility and as such should have had a death rate far below other hospitals - in fact patient deaths should have been quite rare. If you will examine the deaths that occurred there (it was only in business from 2018 to 2024) and the ages of the patients you should find it disturbing. An occasional death of a person at or beyond average life expectancy could be expected but not that of people as young as thirty-three years old. I am aware of a younger patient - aged 23 - who died at another hospital after being discharged by ACCH and had to be taken to the emergency room the next day.

I do not have the resources to compile a complete list but know that there were many deaths of relatively young people at a hospital where deaths at any age should be a rare event as a patient at risk of dying should have been returned to a critical care hospital.