A report from the independent monitor tasked with supervising Mission Hospital has found two areas of “potential noncompliance” with the agreement HCA Healthcare signed when buying the hospital in 2019.
The potential violations were a warning from federal regulators in October 2025 that Mission stood to lose Medicaid and Medicare funding due to threats to patient safety, and what the monitor said was the hospital’s decision to discontinue and “degrade” services, including the emergency and oncology departments, certain pediatric subspecialties and industrial rehabilitation.
This report comes at a critical time for Mission Hospital. The hospital is not currently in “good standing” with the federal Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) and is currently under an “Enhanced Plan of Correction” following repeated failures to address system threats to patient safety. Mission has until Sunday, July 26, 2026 to demonstrate that it is in substantial compliance with the Enhanced Plan of Correction in order to prevent its termination from Medicare and Medicaid programs…