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March 29, 2024

Medical director out at clinic that treated Joan Rivers

Joan Rivers

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This Oct. 5, 2009, file photo shows Joan Rivers as she presents “Comedy Roast With Joan Rivers ” during the 25th MIPCOM (International Film and Programme Market for TV, Video, Cable and Satellite) in Cannes, France. Rivers died Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. She was 81. Rivers was hospitalized Aug. 28 after going into cardiac arrest at a doctor’s office.

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Melissa Rivers and her son Cooper Endicott walk to a waiting car after the funeral service for comedienne Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Rivers died Thursday at age 81. Launch slideshow »

NEW YORK — The medical director of the facility where Joan Rivers went into cardiac arrest during a routine procedure is no longer at the clinic.

A Yorkville Endoscopy spokeswoman said Friday that Dr. Lawrence Cohen is no longer the facility's medical director, nor is he performing procedures there.

The spokeswoman did not elaborate on the circumstances of the respected gastroenterologist's departure.

Cohen is listed as a co-owner of the facility in New York state records.

The 81-year-old Rivers died Sept. 4 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City a week after going into cardiac arrest.

The state health department has said it's investigating "the whole matter."

A spokesman for the department didn't immediately return a message Friday.

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