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Arkansas Continued Care Hospital (ACCH) was in operation in Jonesboro, Arkansas from 2018 to 2025 - approximately seven years. It was located in the building used by NEA Baptist for about two years (2012-2014) while a new facility was being built. Prior to that it was occupied by the Methodist Hospital of Jonesboro and had at the time first used by NEA Baptist had been vacant for a number of years. About four years after being vacated by NEA Baptist it was opened as Arkansas Continued Care Hospital. ACCH was a physical rehabilitation facility and provided no medical services besides monitoring and treating recovering patients who had been treated and released by other hospitals for completion of recovery. ACCH did not operate an emergency room, did not have an intensive care section and did not perform surgery. Patients were admitted in a stable and recovering condition and if the condition of a patient deteriorated return to a general hospital was required. As a rehabilitation facility the patient death rate for this 44-bed facility should have been less than one per year - the actual death rate was in excess of twenty. As a patient I was subjected to a treatment (drug administration) that absent the intervention that saved my life had a near one hundred percent probability of being fatal. After the hospital was closed the doctor responsible opened a private practice in the northeast Arkansas area - all of his prior experience had been working in hospitals. I sent a complaint to the state medical board and they refused to take action, I have reported the matter to the Attorney General and governor and nothing has been done. Given that there is a zero percent probability that he did not cause a large number of patient deaths during his tenure at ACCH I can hardly find a way to care about future victims - I have done all I can.
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