Mission nurses have voted to strike for one day after HCA Healthcare and the Asheville hospital refused to meet their contract demands, two union nurses who tallied the ballots told Asheville Watchdog.

Before Asheville was nationally known as “Beer City” it was known for community-based health care. In 1994, when Oscar Wong started brewing Highland Gaelic ale in the basement of Barley’s, the idea for the “Asheville Project” was born. That same year, North Carolina pharmacy leaders began developing a community-based health care model that was initially implemented in Asheville. 

Three staff neurologists are leaving Mission Hospital by the end of September, potentially leaving only two to provide critical care to hundreds of patients at the Asheville flagship hospital and across western North Carolina, including many who have suffered strokes.

New independent monitor finds HCA in potential non-compliance with Mission asset purchase agreement. Services have fallen short of commitments in three areas, it reports to Dogwood.

Josh Stein’s office wants state health department to deny Mission’s bed expansion application. Letter from NCDOJ calls HCA hospital “poor candidate to promote competition,” says hospital has endangered patients

Opinion: Reclaiming our right to quality health care: Introducing Reclaim Healthcare WNC.

Brevard Mayor Maureen Copelof is putting her support behind a volunteer-led grassroots coalition of medical professionals, business leaders and public officials called Reclaim Healthcare WNC that wants to replace Healthcare Corporation of America, the owner of Mission Hospital.

Opinion: Physician reflects on sense of shared loss after HCA bought Mission Hospital

Former Mission chaplain: “The moral injury that is happening there daily is staggering.” HCA sale upended pastoral care, she says; hospital values service, spokesperson says

Former Mission chief of staff: ‘I truly felt like it was a moral injury’ to work for hospital. Dr. Michael Frisch says he left because hospital put profits before patients after sale

Mission Cancer Center struggles to recruit and retain oncologists, HCA executive tells AG. Five of the six hired since 2020 have left the hospital, which is advertising and recruiting for three open positions