Ted Clifford

Chuck Edwards wants to increase the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' regulatory power after Mission Hospital's four Immediate Jeopardy sanctions.

Mission Hospital's expansion plans in Buncombe County have hit a roadblock as two competing hospitals have appealed the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' decision earlier this month to award it 95 new beds.

In 2022, Chuck Edwards campaigned on his image as the responsible adult in the room. As a prosperous businessman with a chain of McDonalds, Edwards was a hardline if unflashy conservative who had risen through the ranks of the state Senate. He successfully offered western North Carolina a change of pace from the scandal-ridden tenure […]

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.

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.

City of Asheville and Buncombe County resolutions have called for him to visit the region and meet with officials.

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. […]

The latest death occurs during “enhanced” federal safety monitoring following 4th immediate jeopardy citation since 2021.

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 […]