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The mountain region's hospitals have openings for hundreds of registered nurses and the Henderson County public school system is also among the employers needing the most workers, new labor statistics show. Read Story »
Tags: Pardee | Mission Health | labor | AdventHealth | HCA | nursing | nurses
Commissioner Bill Lapsley, back at a meeting of the Board of Commissioners for the first time in more than two months, told the dramatic story of the diagnosis and medical treatment for a rare condition that endangered his life. Read Story »
Tags: Pardee | Mission Hospitals | Mission Health | Bill Lapsley
In what the union hailed as a landslide vote, nurses at Mission Hospital in Asheville voted this week to approve a union — the first in North Carolina to do so and the largest hospital union win in the South since 1975. Read Story »
Tags: Mission Health | labor | nursing | nurses | labor unions
North Carolina is home to one of the biggest union battles in the South. Read Story »
Tags: Mission Hospitals | Mission Health | labor | labor unions
HCA Healthcare, the new Mission Health owner, has implementing an enterprise-wide minimum wage of $12.50/hour. Read Story »
Tags: health care | Mission Health | unemployment
Pardee UNC Health Care announced today that it will partner with Mission Health to launch a telestroke program. The new partnership, starting Friday, will expand Pardee’s stroke treatment capability and allow a neurologist to diagnose and treat stroke as quickly as possible. Read Story »
Tags: Pardee | Mission Health
Mission Health is excited to announce Chad Patrick as the new chief executive officer for HCA Healthcare’s North Carolina Division’s flagship 763-bed Mission Hospital. Patrick will be joining the team in mid-July. Read Story »
Tags: health care | Mission Health | HCA
With the sale of Mission Health System's to HCA Healthcare, Dogwood Health Trust is now officially operating as a private, nonprofit foundation whose purpose is to dramatically improve the health and well-being of all people and communities in Western North Carolina. Read Story »
Tags: Mission Health | Dogwood Health Trust
After negotiating changes to ensure sustained hospital facilities in rural counties and greater geographic representation of a new health care trust, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein announced Wednesday that he would not object to HCA’s acquisition of Mission Health System’s assets. Read Story »
Tags: health care | Mission Hospitals | Mission Health
Pardee Hospital will become a participant organization in the Mission Health Partners Accountable Care Organization. Read Story »
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ASHEVILLE — A former banker with more than 20 years of experience in fundraising has been named the new president of the Mission Foundation, which raises money for Mission Health. Read Story »
Tags: health care | Mission Hospitals | non-profit organizations | fundraisers | Mission Health
FLETCHER — Fletcher on Wednesday seemed far away from the pitched battle over Obamacare in Washington. Read Story »
Tags: Pardee Hospital | Pardee | Mission Health | Pardee-Mission health campus
Mission hospital is embarking on a major expansion that will include a $350 million tower and the possible demolition of the St. Joseph's building, the Asheville Citizen-Times reports. Read Story »
Tags: health care | Pardee-Mission joint venture | Pardee | Mission Health | Pardee-Mission health campus
Friends and supporters of the Flat Rock Playhouse and Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra are celebrating Hendersonville's inclusion in a USA Today feature on "5 Great (Unknown) Places to Retire." Why? The writeup lists both as reasons for the area's appeal. Read Story »
Tags: hendersonville | Flat Rock Playhouse | Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra | Mission Health | retirement
Pardee and Mission hospitals and the YMCA of Western North Carolina have agreed to add a new YMCA building to the Mission-Pardee health campus on the county line in Fletcher. Read Story »
Tags: Pardee Hospital | health care | Mission Health | YMCA | Pardee-Mission health campus | health and fitness
The state Senate won't pursue further study of the state certificate that permitted the Mission-St. Joseph's hospital merger eight years ago, state Sen. Tom Apodaca said. Read Story »
Tags: Park Ridge Health | health care | Pardee-Mission joint venture | Mission Health
Mission Hospital said it was pleased with a state House committee's recommendation that it meet with Park Ridge Health "to discuss patient care in Western North Carolina." Read Story »
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ASHEVILLE — Neil Gurney has been named vice president of strategic implementation at Mission Health, the hospital announced. Read Story »
Tags: health care | Mission Health
RUTHERFORDTON — After a search to identify the best possible long-term partner for its health system and community, Rutherford Regional Health System has decided to negotiate a formal affiliation agreement with Mission Health, the Asheville hospital said in a news release. Read Story »
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Mission Health (Mission) reported today that the independent accounting firm of Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP (DHG) has released reports related to its recent assessment of Mission's compliance with its Certificate of Public Advantage (COPA). Read Story »
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