{"id":803703,"date":"2026-08-05T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/803703\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T17:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:00:10","slug":"independent-monitor-discusses-hcas-ownership-of-mission-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/803703\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent monitor discusses HCA&#8217;s ownership of Mission Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS)  \u2014 Members of the independent monitor took questions from the public on Aug. 4, regarding HCA&#8217;s 2019 purchase of Mission Hospital.<\/p>\n<p><p>Independent monitor discusses HCA&#8217;s ownership of Mission Hospital. (WLOS)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>One of those questions was &#8220;Is there any chance of a new health care system, like UNC Health, taking over Mission Hospital?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Ryan with the independent monitor said she didn&#8217;t know what the chance of that would be.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/local\/mission-hospital-hca-lawsuit-emergency-cancer-care-trial-north-carolina-attorney-general-jeff-jackson-josh-stein-health-care-profit-wnc-judge-business-court-rulings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">JUDGE REJECTS HCA HEALTHCARE&#8217;S MOTION TO AVOID TRIAL, ATTORNEY GENERAL JACKSON SAYS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I can say under the APA, HCA is actually under an obligation not to sell Mission Hospital during the first 10 years,&#8221; she said. &#8220;If it wants to sell the hospital, it must receive the consent of what&#8217;s called an advisory board, and we&#8217;re not aware of any desire by HCA to sell Mission Hospital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The independent monitor&#8217;s 2025 report identifies two areas of potential non-compliance with the purchase agreement from 2019. One regards discontinuation of certain service through Mission and care partners. The other involves the hospital&#8217;s multiple instances of &#8220;Immediate jeopardy&#8221; as designated by the centers for Medicare and Medicaid in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Another question centered on the performance of the five rural hospitals in the mission health system. The independent monitor said that there were no concerns with any of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) \u2014 Members of the independent monitor took questions from the public on Aug. 4, regarding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-803703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}