Mission Hospital McDowell is implementing visitor restrictions due to an increase in influenza-like illness. The hospital is limiting patients to two visitors at a time, and no children under 13 are allowed to visit.
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Ellen Haug of Sapphire questions HCA’s management of the Highlands-Cashiers Hospital in Jackson County since its acquisition of the Mission Health hospital chain in 2019. Haug was part of a crowd attending a Jan. 28, 2020, meeting run by Gibbens Advisors, the state-mandated independent monitor assigned to ensure that the merger is completed within the limits set by N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein.
Asheville’s Mission Hospital could lose Medicare and Medicaid funding if the hospital doesn’t fix issues that pose “immediate jeopardy” to patients’ health and safety, according to a letter sent by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to Mission Hospital CEO Chad Patrick.
Mission Hospital McDowell is implementing visitor restrictions due to an increase in influenza-like illness. The hospital is limiting patients to two visitors at a time, and no children under 13 are allowed to visit.
Ellen Haug of Sapphire questions HCA’s management of the Highlands-Cashiers Hospital in Jackson County since its acquisition of the Mission Health hospital chain in 2019. Haug was part of a crowd attending a Jan. 28, 2020, meeting run by Gibbens Advisors, the state-mandated independent monitor assigned to ensure that the merger is completed within the limits set by N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein.