ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Nurses with Mission Hospital held a demonstration on Thursday, May 8, calling on the hospital’s parent company to “do better” with staffing and to highlight concerns over MAHEC’s exit from Mission Health Partners.
Hannah Drummond, the chief nurse representative of National Nurses United at Mission Hospital, said nurses who are MAHEC patients received surprise medical bills totaling thousands of dollars.
“When I started digging deeper, we found out that the contracts between the hospital and MAHEC had been terminated, and we have our own special healthcare plan through Aetna, through the hospital,” Drummond said. “So, while MAHEC accepts Aetna, they don’t accept our version which impacts 5,000 employees in the county, not just nurses.”…