ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Documents detailing incidents at Mission Hospital that prompted its latest “immediate jeopardy” status include the deaths of two patients, an apparent assault on a nurse by a patient, and a measles exposure in the emergency department (ED) that made headlines last month.

The incidents were detailed in a report by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in its “Summary Statement of Deficiencies.”

One incident involved an 88-year-old female, identified as patient #19, who died at the hospital. Documents claim “the hospital failed to notify the physician of a critically low hemoglobin level and low oxygen saturation.” The hospital is also accused of failing to monitor her vital signs for more than 12 hours.

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Documents say another patient, a 55-year-old male who was in active fentanyl withdrawal, was given droperidol, which is described as a “high-risk medication with an FDA black box warning for life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias.” He suffered cardiac arrest 30 minutes after receiving the medication and ultimately died, per the documents.

Another incident involved a measles exposure in the hospital’s emergency department, which made headlines at the beginning of January. The report said 7-year-old twins arrived at the ED in the early morning hours of Jan. 4, 2026, with fever, cough, rash, conjunctivitis, and coryza. The report claims the children remained in the open waiting room for about 30 minutes before being moved to the Immediate Patient Area, “where they remained without isolation precautions.”

The children were ultimately diagnosed with measles hours later, according to the report.

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The report says hospital staff had been educated in June 2025 on recognizing the signs of measles, specifically the “three C’s: cough, coryza, and conjunctivitis,” yet neither patient was isolated until more than two hours after their arrival.

The incident resulted in the potential exposure of 26 people.

“These failures to implement immediate isolation precautions for patients with known or suspected highly contagious diseases violated the facility’s infection control policy and exposed dozens of patients, staff, and visitors to influenza and measles,” the report said. “The lack of timely recognition and isolation despite documented diagnoses, clinical presentations, and staff education demonstrated a breakdown in infection control practices that placed everyone in the hospital at immediate risk for serious infectious disease exposure and development.”

This story will be updated.