Becker's Healthcare August 9, 2024
HCA Healthcare is facing mounting pressure to give up control of Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health, which it acquired in 2019.
Reclaim Healthcare WNC, a group of physicians, nurses, elected officials and community advocates, has criticized Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA’s actions, including its move to shutter two family medicine practices, according to a July 28 editorial published in The Citizen Times.
The coalition has launched a campaign to entice a nonprofit organization to replace HCA. In addition, the North Carolina attorney general’s office recently asked the state health department to deny HCA Healthcare’s certificate-of-need application to add 26 acute care beds to Mission Hospital.
Tim Plaut, MD, a physician who worked at the shuttered family practices, discussed the closures and HCA’s...
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