The sale of Mission Health to HCA Healthcare means several changes to organizations and services once affiliated with Mission:
- An independent nonprofit called MountainCare now operates adult day care services that were once part of Mission’s CarePartners unit. CarePartners’ grief counseling and music therapy services also shifted to MountainCare.
- Operation of the Rathbun House, an inn for people with relatives being treated at local hospitals, moved from Mission Health System Foundation to MountainCare.
- CarePartners Foundation will get a new name and provide financial backing to MountainCare. The foundation had supported CarePartners, which will continue to offer home health, rehabilitation and hospice services. The change will mean a roughly $2.5 million to $3 million annual loss for CarePartners.
- CarePartners Foundation is in the process of selling the CarePartners campus on Sweeten Creek Road to HCA. The sale and the foundation’s share of the proceeds from the Mission/HCA deal will allow it to dramatically expand its giving to agencies that provide health care in Western North Carolina.
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