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‘It doesn’t have to be this way:’ Watchdog event panelists decry …
WEBJan 24, 2024 · An Asheville Watchdog community event focusing on the crisis of health care at Mission Hospital drew an audience of about 350 Tuesday evening amid calls for HCA Healthcare to overhaul the way it has managed the hospital system since it bought it in 2019. The event, titled “HCA-Mission at Five Years: What Can We Do […]
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WEBAsheville Watchdog is a free, local, not-for-profit, nonpartisan news organization. It was founded in 2020 as a public service by veteran professional journalists and media executives living in and around Asheville, North Carolina. Most members of the staff are volunteers. Our operations are supported entirely by contributions from the community. We believe that high-quality, independent local ...
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WEBWestern North Carolina attracts highly accomplished people of all backgrounds, including award-winning journalists from some of the world’s leading news organizations. Volunteers are indicated with (V), designating those who donate their time supporting local journalism as a community service. The News Team Sally Kestin, investigative reporter, co-founder (V)Former investigative reporter at ...
Former Mission board member: ‘We had hoped that HCA would …
WEBJan 20, 2024 · The Watchdog recently queried all members of the board about how they now feel about the deal. Only Brumit and Elliott would talk, and their comments to The Watchdog are the first by any former Mission official or board member to break the official silence surrounding the $1.5 billion sale, which occurred five years ago.. As first reported by The Watchdog, the Mission board entrusted then ...
Feds cite Asheville’s Mission Hospital for “immediate jeopardy,” …
WEBFeb 2, 2024 · Mission Hospital has been officially informed by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that it is in “immediate jeopardy” related to deficiencies in care, according to an internal email obtained by Asheville Watchdog.. The finding is the most severe sanction possible for a hospital and starts a 23-day clock for Mission to produce a plan for fixing the problems or risk losing ...
New YMCA building downtown? And an 18-story apartment …
WEBFeb 14, 2023 · My answer: To be fair, I’m pretty sure the downtown Y dates to early European settlement in the mountains.. Real answer: In short, this project is a biggun’!. The YMCA of Western North Carolina, along with partners First Baptist Church of Asheville and the Greenville, South Carolina-based real estate development company, Furman Co., submitted plans to the city of Asheville last week for a ...
Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards crushes challengers in the race to …
WEBFeb 14, 2024 · When Democrat Caleb Rudow stood before a room of enthusiastic supporters to announce his candidacy for Congress in November, he portrayed himself like Rocky of movie fame, entering the ring against an over-muscled opponent who, in this narrative, is Republican Chuck Edwards. “You know, we love an underdog story,” the 37-year-old Asheville state legislator said. […]
Quality of Care Concerns Rise at Mission Hospital
WEBMay 20, 2021 · Karen Sanders, who holds a master’s degree in nursing and worked at Mission Hospital for 16 years, said she has been “horrified” to witness what she said is a recent decline in Mission’s quality of care. Now a professional patient advocate, Sanders said she has observed a rise in Mission’s nurse-to-patient ratios — meaning each ...
Sure, it would be cool to have mountain lions in the mountains, …
WEBJun 26, 2023 · In this case, we want to believe mountain lions are once again roaming the mountains. Just like in the “X-Files,” we want to believe. In my 28 years of covering the news here, I’ve found you can count on an “authentic, verifiable, swear-to-God-I-saw-it” mountain lion sighting making the rounds at least a couple of times […]