Concerns go unanswered during HCA monitor meeting
The public had a lot of questions during an April 7 virtual meeting regarding Mission Health’s services and operations since being bought by for-profit HCA Healthcare in 2019. Unfortunately, Gibbins Advisors the independent monitor hired to ensure HCA fulfills its contractual obligations couldn’t provide them with many answers.
While the team of healthcare experts and accountants with Gibbins Advisors say they are continuously monitoring HCA operations at Mission-affiliated hospitals in Western North Carolina, their contractual scope is limited to the 15 commitments outlined in the purchase agreement between Mission and HCA, which was ultimately signed off on by Attorney General Josh Stein.
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Updated: 6:25 PM EST Mar 1, 2021 (Above video report on coronavirus numbers in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia is for March 1,)A North Carolina hospital system announced Monday it was relaxing its visitor policy.Beginning Tuesday, March 2, Mission Health hospitals will allow two visitors per inpatients during regular visitor hours. Patients who are hospitalized overnight may have one visitor remain with them overnight. Outpatient surgery patients may have one visitor.Due to the high number of patients continuously being cared for at the Mission Hospital ER, these patients may have one visitor accompany them, the hospital said. ER patients at Angel Medical Center, Blue Ridge Regional Hospital, Highlands-Cashiers Hospital, Mission Hospital McDowell, and Transylvania Regional Hospital may have two visitors with them. CarePartners locations will allow two visitors per patient, during regular visitor hours. Patients who are hospitalized overnight may now have one v
COVID-19: What you need to know Feb. 24 in Asheville, WNC Derek Lacey, Asheville Citizen Times © Courtesy of Andre Daugherty Gladys Knight and her husband, Billy McDowell, a native of Haywood County, received their COVID-19 vaccines at Haywood Regional Medical Center. They then encouraged people to get vaccines at a free clinic Feb. 13 in Canton.
North Carolina added 1,514 new COVID-19 cases Feb. 23, the fewest in more than 100 days, since 1,336 were added on Nov. 2.
New daily cases continue to trend down since the post-holiday spike around the first week of January.
The addition increased the total in the state to 846,284 since the start of the pandemic.
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HCA Healthcare completed its $1.5-billion acquisition of western North Carolina s Mission Health in 2019, but the nonprofit sale to a for-profit entity hasn t been without scrutiny. Following reports from the local community of charity care that s difficult for patients to understand and declines in service, a slew of physician departures is now turning heads.
Dogwood Health Trust a foundation formed with proceeds from the sale to monitor HCA s compliance with obligations of the deal and to invest in the health and well-being of North Carolinians hasn t notified HCA of any issues of noncompliance to date. But the recent or impending loss of more than a dozen physicians has caught the attention of the North Carolina Attorney General s Office as well as the independent monitor put in place to advise Dogwood Health Trust.
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