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Mission Hospital has received conditional state approval to add 95 more acute-care beds to its main facility in Buncombe County despite being under investigation by state and federal healthcare agencies for repeated safety violations linked to multiple patient deaths in recent years.
In making the Certificate of Need award on March 27, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Division of Health Service Regulation rejected competing proposals by AdventHealth Asheville and UNC Health West Medical Center each to add 129 beds to facilities they plan to build in Buncombe County…