A Mission Hospital pharmacy program that provides and tracks patients’ medications to ensure their safety has been plagued by nearly constant turnover for years, Asheville Watchdog has learned.
Despite warnings from a supervisor about dangerous errors that could result from staff departures, hospital leadership did not take significant action to recruit and retain employees, even during a hospital-wide federal investigation and resulting sanctions.
According to internal documents and emails obtained by The Watchdog, along with interviews with multiple employees, little was done in 2023 and 2024 to keep staff on the hospital’s medication reconciliation team. The team’s supervisor, Andrea Leone, was fired in May 2024 after she commented on social media about the department’s lack of staffing…