Federal regulators have officially placed Asheville’s Mission Hospital in Immediate Jeopardy for the second straight year. The hospital now has 18 days to make things right, or else lose its Medicaid certification and the critical funding that comes along with it.
Preventable patient death, unsafe patient transport, patient misidentification and harmful infection protocol — instances of all four were found at Mission in recent months.
In response, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services recommended the hospital face Immediate Jeopardy, the most serious citation regulators can deliver…