The Dogwood Health Trust — the foundation responsible for enforcing HCA Healthcare’s compliance with the terms of its 2019 purchase of nonprofit Mission Health — has accelerated its oversight schedule ...
Sign me up for free news alerts! Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: Why and by whom am I being assigned a different, less convenient voting location? I ...
On a 15-degree morning in January, a clinic in this small Yancey County community on the northern edge of Pisgah National ...
By the time Asheville officials passed a slate of arboreal protections in 2020, it was clear that the city’s canopy was ...
In my mind, Tunnel Road in Asheville has always been an area teetering right on the edge of sketchiness, sometimes bordering on scuzz. That comes with a caveat, though: It’s also home to a thriving ...
Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: On your way to work someday, or sooner, drive northbound on Merrimon Avenue.  Take a look at the lane markings from ...
An 88-year-old woman recovering from hip surgery at Mission Hospital died after going 13 hours without receiving a needed blood transfusion. Another patient’s heart stopped for 15 minutes leading to ...
An 88-year-old woman recovering from hip surgery at Mission Hospital died after going 13 hours without receiving a needed blood transfusion. Another patient’s heart stopped for 15 minutes leading to ...
Citing “systemic and recurring patterns of noncompliance found during previous surveys,” the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services harshly informed Mission Hospital CEO Greg Lowe last week ...
Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: As we all know, early January was unseasonably warm, with temperatures at one point in the mid-50s — in the morning!
HCA Healthcare took control of Asheville’s nonprofit Mission Hospital seven years ago, on Feb. 1, 2019, but Groundhog Day seems the more appropriate anniversary. As in the 1993 film, the people of ...
I hang my head in shame these days. Not because I’ve eaten 227 milk and bread sandwiches over the past week and a half, or even because I recently purchased a pair of electric heated socks. (A little ...