Ted Clifford is a statewide accountability reporter at The State Newspaper. He has a diverse background covering crime and courts, with a focus on criminal justice, public safety, and health-related topics, including consumer health and healthcare systems in South Carolina. Ted's work has been featured in numerous publications, including Lawton Publishing Company, Gwinnett Daily Post, and The Charlotte Observer, and he is the recipient of the 2023 award for best beat reporting by the South Carolina Press Association.
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Ted Clifford's coverage predominantly focuses on local crime, including breaking news and evolving stories in South Carolina. He frequently covers incidents such as arrests, investigations, accidents, and law enforcement-related events. Given this focus, individuals with first-hand knowledge of ongoing criminal cases or those involved in law enforcement may find success when reaching out to Ted.
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By: Ted Clifford
Upwards of 18,000 current and former Mission Health employees are entitled to back wages following a settlement over its practice of rounding down time that employees worked, not paying overtime and deducting wages for lunch breaks that they didn’t take. The HCA Healthcare-owned network agreed to pay $1,563,000 to settle the class action lawsuit. Once […]
Mission Hospital has no plans to add staff in key areas – including trauma care, security, and nursing administration – as part of its recently approved, now-contested, 95-bed acute-care expansion, according to its application to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
By: Ted Clifford
At HCA Healthcare's April 23 shareholder meeting, CEO Sam Hazen pushed back on claims that he needed to do more to engage with Mission Hospital, which faces a fast-approaching deadline to fix deficiencies in care or face the loss of Medicare and Medicaid funding.
By: Ted Clifford
City of Asheville and Buncombe County resolutions have called for him to visit the region and meet with officials.
By: Ted Clifford
A Mission Hospital patient under an involuntary commitment order died by suicide in the emergency department in the early morning hours of May 21, Asheville Watchdog has confirmed. The patient, whom The Watchdog is not naming at this time, was brought to the hospital by law enforcement, according to four people familiar with the incident. […]
By: Ted Clifford
The latest death occurs during “enhanced” federal safety monitoring following 4th immediate jeopardy citation since 2021.
By: Ted Clifford
Paula Case knows the job of a medical examiner wasn’t meant to be easy. Since 2021 she has driven up and down seven counties of western North Carolina investigating deaths that are sudden, violent, unexpected or simply unattended by a physician. Like all local medical investigators in the state, Case, a registered nurse, is a […]
UNC Health, the University of North Carolina's hospital system, has applied for permission to open a 92-bed hospital near downtown Asheville. North Carolina's state-owned nonprofit health provider, which already operates UNCHealth Pardee in Henderson County, made the request to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services under the state's Certificate of Need (CON) requirement, which requires regulatory approval.
Following the sale of Asheville's Mission Health system to HCA Healthcare in 2019, nurses and doctors left in large numbers, practices closed, regulators sanctioned the hospital multiple times, and the public has clamored for information. But lately, that information has been harder to get.
Chris Fink likes to volunteer. But where some people might build houses or help out in a soup kitchen, once every three months Fink takes a tour of Buncombe County's nursing homes and long-term adult care facilities as a member of the county's Community Advisory Committee. Fink visits with residents, helps them to resolve issues and checks to see if bathrooms are clean, medicine carts are locked, and cleaning supplies are put away. He speaks with managers to understand the issues they're facing and helps them stay in compliance with the law.
