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Patients, PPE and COVID-19: Lowe talks HCA system's pandemic year


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Through a year of COVID-19 pandemic challenges and in the face of a national nurses shortage, along with local doctors leaving Mission, HCA Healthcare in North Carolina is still going strong, according to Greg Lowe, president of HCA Healthcare North Carolina.
Lowe updated the Council of Independent Business Owners on everything the hospital system has been doing over the past year at the group s May 7 meeting. 
Over the past year and in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the system has conducted 51,000 telehealth encounters and more than 2.1 million patient encounters. 
There are 24 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at Mission Hospital in Asheville, he said, and a total 32 system-wide as of May 7. ....

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With Asheville development, a desire to 'close the door behind you'?


When it comes to development, everybody has heard of the concept of NIMBYism Not In My Back Yard.
But the Asheville area also experiences another form of anti-development backlash, one fueled by folks who move here from other areas, sometimes into relatively new developments. And then they want development to stop.
That s a real thing, said former Buncombe County Development Director Jim Coman, who retired in 2010. We used to call it IGMSY  I Got Mine, Screw You. I ve already moved here, I m happy and don t you dare come.  
To be clear, Coman, a Buncombe County native whose roots go back to Revolutionary War-era ancestors, believes all residents of an area have a right to voice concerns about potential development and the rules their communities operate under. That s a fundamental right that comes with being American. ....

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