Press release from Mission Health:
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – April 13, 2020 – Mission Health is committed to improving the health and well-being of our community. As part of that ongoing commitment, we’re pleased to announce that we are in the initial phases of a process to purchase property to build a brand new, state of the art, 120-bed behavioral health hospital.
“Mission Health and HCA Healthcare are committed to serving the Asheville community and to ensuring local patients continue to have access to high-quality care close to home. Part of this commitment includes the expansion of our facilities and locations based on the growing needs of our community,” said Greg Lowe, President, HCA North Carolina Division.
Mission Health is following locally-established processes for evaluating the project for the property that has been identified: a one-level medical facility of approximately 85,000 square feet on approximately 25 acres of land off Crayton Road, near I-40 and Sweeten Creek Road.
Improving behavioral healthcare for our community has been and remains a top priority for both Mission Health and HCA Healthcare.
Very excited to hear about behavioral health being taken seriously. I do hope that educated professionals are hired, not just the least expensive workers. Behavioral health is in critical need of supportive , professional, and nurturing care.
I worked as volunteer facilitating a BiPolar Support Group in the evening at Copestone. There may have been 10 staff on one floor who knew everyone’s name. the halls, meeting rooms and bathrooms were very clean.
Having been at Mission-HCA three times this past year, I am concerned about HCA running a psychiatric, most especially for a floor or ward that treats four year olds and young children. This should require more staff per patient and background in side effects of psych meds on toddlers, a questional practice in the first place. In aoll my times at Mission, the floors were dirty, there were no paper towels in the bathrooms and nurses, looking in cabinets for supplies, found they had not been restocked. My church friends are never given a bath;p theeir faces are wiped with a baby wipe type cloth. wounds areww not cared for properly. CNA’s are missing. Sepsis seems common.
This concern for the bottom line is one thing in a regular hospital, but it can be malpractice, and surely not Best Practice in a Behavioral Health Unit. Suicicde attempts, rape, agressive behavior, and catatonic states are fairly common without adequate , trained , staffing. Besides building codes, what are the staffing and progframming and outcome requirements for HCA?