ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) \u2014 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.<\/p>\n
Surveyors returned to Mission Hospital last week to review procedures and processes outlined in the hospital’s enhanced plan of correction submitted to CMS.<\/p>\n
MISSION HOSPITAL CAREERS PAGE SHOWS NEARLY 500 JOB OPENINGS ACROSS WNC NETWORK<\/a><\/p>\n 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<\/a> relating to patient rights, nursing services and infection prevention and control.<\/p>\n As previously reported, this is the third immediate jeopardy designation from CMS in two years that identifies issues that endanger patient safety.<\/p>\n In October 2025<\/a>, 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.”<\/p>\n MISSION HOSPITAL PLACED IN IMMEDIATE JEOPARDY FOR 3RD TIME IN 2 YEARS<\/a><\/p>\n