HCA Healthcare and Mission Health have agreed to a settlement with several western North Carolina municipalities in a three-year lawsuit accusing the hospital system and its corporate owner of antitrust violations.
Mission Health announced Wednesday in a news release that the cities of Brevard and Asheville, along with Buncombe and Madison counties, had reached an agreement that stipulates that Mission Health will donate $1 million to a newly established charitable fund to provide assistance with healthcare costs for people at up to 400 percent of the federal poverty level and will promise to keep Transylvania Regional Hospital in Brevard open for three years beyond the 10 it originally committed to.
Mission also promised to “cooperate in the negotiation of space adequate for the provision of adult day care services in Brevard, North Carolina, and to seek for Mission Hospital quality verification as a trauma center; and [provide] the Plaintiff municipalities and counties with additional information related to Mission Health advisory boards.”…