State Health Department investigating the clinic where Rivers became unresponsive during an Aug. 28 medical procedure.
Joan Rivers was declared dead Thursday after her daughter Melissa Rivers made the heartbreaking decision to take her off
life support.
She was surrounded by close family and friends, Melissa Rivers said in a statement.
The “Fashion Police” host, who was staying in a private room at the Mount Sinai Hospital, was dependent on machines to stay alive eight days after going into cardiac and respiratory arrest, sources said.
The 81-year-old star’s room was filled with flowers, and her hair and makeup were done as Melissa Rivers pondered her life-and-death choice.
Melissa made the decision to remove the life support, the source said. Joan Rivers was “being kept comfortable” in her new room after leaving the intensive care unit Wednesday, her daughter said.
State health officials are now probing the Upper East Side clinic where Rivers became unresponsive during an Aug. 28 medical procedure.
“The State Health Department is investigating the matter,” agency spokesman James O'Hare told the Daily News Thursday.
The clinic, Yorkville Endoscopy on E. 93rd St., opened in February 2013 as a state-of-the-art surgical center started by physicians at New York Gastroenterology.
Rivers was upgraded to a larger hospital suite “decorated by celebrity wedding planner Preston Bailey with flowers, bows,
plants,” according to longtime close pal Cindy Adams.
Rivers was covered by a white faux mink blanket, while a CD of the Broadway hit “Oklahoma!” plays in her room.
Adams was photographed leaving the Manhattan medical center on Monday. Experts said that her transfer to the
private room could signal the end of her fight for life.
Rivers had been on life support since the weekend and was placed in a medical coma prior to that.
EMTs rushed the legendary comic to Mount Sinai last week after she went into cardiac and respiratory arrest during a routine doctor’s visit.
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