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From Staff Reports
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Despite facing multiple serious federal citations, including “immediate jeopardy” findings, and intense scrutiny over staffing and patient care under Nashville-based HCA Healthcare, Mission Hospital in Asheville won approval for a $198 million, 95-bed expansion.
And while Mission Hospital received approval to expand, “new hospital proposals from nonprofits AdventHealth and UNC Health West have been denied, though with the opportunity to appeal,” the Asheville Citizen Times reported on April 2.
“In a letter sent to Mission Hospital dated March 27, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services approved Mission Hospital to receive no more than 95 additional acute care beds, bringing the hospital to 828 acute care beds,” the ACT noted.
“In another letter the same day, the agency approved Novant Health to build a 34-bed hospital
“Competing health systems presented their visions for the future of Western North Carolina health care in December,” the ACT stated, with Mission, Advent and UNC Health each vying to build a new, 129-bed hospital for the region.
Novant Health proposed an “intentionally modest” hospital that would be in Arden.
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