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Mission Hostile | Barbara Durr and Andrew Jones of AVL Watchdog

Mar 28, 202338 minEp. 27
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Four years ago, the board of Asheville’s nonprofit Mission Health system sold control of its six hospitals to the for-profit HCA Healthcare. Since then, more than 3,500 doctors, nurses and support staff have left the system. Patients and healthcare workers have sued HCA over quality of care and working conditions—complaints that continue in freeflow to this day.

Talking about all that with Matt Peiken are AVL Watchdog journalists Barbara Durr and Andrew Jones. Their deep reporting has documented the broad effects of Mission’s sale to HCA, and our conversation sheds some light on how one of Asheville’s most important nonprofit boards chose to surrender its mission.


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