When AdventHealth broke ground on its long-awaited Weaverville hospital on March 26, the Florida-based health system envisioned a hospital with hundreds of beds — one which could eventually rival that of HCA-owned Mission Hospital, which currently dominates the Asheville market.
That plan, however, was thrown into doubt last week when the state Department of Health and Human Services chose to award 95 additional acute care beds to Mission rather than the new Weaverville hospital.
In all there were 129 acute care beds up for grabs, which HCA, AdventHealth, Novant and UNC Health jockeyed over in a competitive review process…