ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) gave Mission Hospital the deadline of Wednesday, Feb. 18, to put in place procedures to remove its ‘immediate jeopardy’ designation.
Surveyors returned to Mission Hospital last week to review procedures and processes outlined in the hospital’s enhanced plan of correction submitted to CMS.
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CMS has given Mission Hospital until the end of July to work with an independent consultant to address the pattern of deficiencies identified during a January inspection relating to patient rights, nursing services and infection prevention and control.
As previously reported, this is the third immediate jeopardy designation from CMS in two years that identifies issues that endanger patient safety.
In October 2025, Mission Hospital faced ‘immediate jeopardy’ for “patient misidentification,” failure to “assess a telemetry patient with emergent needs,” a failure “to ensure safe and appropriate transport and continuous pulse oximetry monitoring for a patient during transport.”
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Mission Hospital was previously placed in ‘immediate jeopardy’ in February 2024, with CMS finding that the hospital failed to meet conditions regarding the governing body, patients’ rights, the Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement Program, as well as nursing, lab and emergency services.
Both previous ‘immediate jeopardy’ designations were lifted.
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