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Mission Hospital remains out of compliance with federal health and safety regulations and will lose crucial Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements in January if it doesn’t fix the problems, according to a letter sent last week from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to Mission CEO Greg Lowe.
Mission had received an immediate jeopardy citation in October, meaning that CMS, acting on information from North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services surveyors, found that it posed an imminent threat to patients’ lives and safety. Though the surveyors found in a follow-up visit that the immediate danger had abated, they said the hospital still had deficiencies in patients’ rights, nursing services and emergency services — all of which were ultimately the responsibility of its governing body…