This fall, Asheville’s Mission Hospital faced Immediate Jeopardy, the most serious citation federal regulators can deliver, for the second time in two years. Once again, the beleaguered hospital system appears to have wiggled its way out of meaningful consequences.
The hospital has submitted a plan of correction by Sunday’s deadline, CMS told Carolina Public Press. The citation has now been removed, according to hospital CEO Greg Lowe. Now, CMS will send surveyors on an unannounced visit to Asheville to see whether Mission is really fixing its problems.
This year, those problems included preventable patient death, unsafe patient transport, patient misidentification and harmful infection protocol…