Mission Hospital has hired an outside consultant following its most recent Immediate Jeopardy sanction and committed to federal regulators that it will make sweeping changes, including reevaluating “the capacity and competency” of its leadership and staff, according to its enhanced plan of correction obtained by Asheville Watchdog.
Mission leadership promised a number of steps and improvements in the plan required by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services following its third Immediate Jeopardy in less than two years. These include commissioning an analysis on the root causes of its deficiencies in care, “resetting” the hospital’s relationship with CMS, and changing its blood transfusion policies.
“Mission understands the responsibility we have for the health and safety of our community and the need for our patients to have confidence in their Hospital,” administrators wrote in the plan, which was approved by CMS. “Our patients deserve a safe hospital, one that consistently delivers high-quality healthcare.”…