Reclaim Healthcare WNC’s goals are to replace HCA with a nonprofit hospital system, “hold HCA accountable for its harmful culture and practices” and “restore best-in-class healthcare throughout the Mission system,” per a press release.
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Hospitality workers reveal health care struggles in new survey
Less than one-fourth of Asheville hospitality workers in a recent survey have paid sick leave, and 85% have gone to work sick.
Letter: Let’s get profit out of health care
“Research reveals public hospitals and nonprofit hospitals produce better patient outcomes than the for-profit ones.”
Letter: Mission’s deconstruction has been a team sport
“Though reality was hushed, Mission was in serious trouble way before HCA was given the checkered flag. Major hospital systems are rarely discarded because of how well they are run.”
HCA critics may not realize they’re also shareholders
“Recently, there has been a local movement to buy individual shares of HCA stock and submit a shareholder resolution to address the company’s profit-first business strategy at Mission.”
Letter: Edwards chooses dereliction of duty in HCA debacle
“Instead of providing solutions or offering to use the power of his office to make things right for the people of Western North Carolina, he blamed the HCA sale on the ‘failures of Obamacare.’”
Letter: Funding loss would bode ill for WNC
“So losing Medicare would be like shooting yourself in the foot — and not having an emergency room to take care of your wound.”
Watchdog event panelists decry HCA, call for improved care at Mission Health
Asheville Watchdog hosts “HCA-Mission at Five Years: What Can We Do to Restore Better Healthcare in WNC?” The Jan. 23 event featured five panelists: Dr. Clay Ballantine; Brevard Mayor Maureen Copelof; Dr. R. Bruce Kelly; patient advocate and nurse Karen Sanders; and state Sen. Julie Mayfield, D-Buncombe.
Letter: Our positive experience at Mission ER
“I appreciate the people giving their best despite being in difficult work environments.”
Year in review: Health care gets mixed marks in 2023
Xpress heard from residents from all walks of life — some in health care, many not — about their thoughts on health and wellness in the region in 2023.
Letter: Concerns about the holiday parade
“If the holiday parade can tolerate military trainees and floats with fake missiles on them, surely the holiday parade can tolerate signs and T-shirts that promote peace, disarmament, health care and protecting the environment.”
Letter: Everyone should get the health care they need
“It is time to give Americans — all Americans — the health care they need and deserve.”
Year in Review: Health was more than metrics in 2022
Discussions about health and wellness have been dominated by COVID-19 for nearly three years, and that’s certainly been reflected in the media landscape nationwide. In Asheville, however, the effects of COVID-19 on physical health and mental health are just one story to be told.
Letter: Question your doctor about Medicare alignment
“As a retired RN, a traditional Medicare consumer and member of HealthCare for All WNC, I contacted my local doctor about the practice working with an ACO REACH program.”
Letter: Violence prevention law would help WNC workers
“If effective systems were already in place, then health care workers wouldn’t represent almost three-quarters of all workplace violence occurrences.”
Literacy program engages doctors to promote kids reading
The goal is that reading with a child will become a routine and will foster a love of reading on its own.
Letter: Abortion ban violates religious rights
“Abortion access is a Jewish value, and bans on abortion are a violation of Jewish religious freedom and human rights.”
Letter: WNC needs nonprofit hospital
“HCA must not be the only hospital available to WNC.”
AdventHealth, HCA and Novant Health to apply for hospital beds
Three hospitals plan to file applications to build a new 67-bed hospital in Western North Carolina.
Letter: Our border crisis affects us locally
“North Carolina is locally sustained by migrant workers, from agriculture to the many other jobs they contribute, yet their lives here and those arriving to enter through our borders crisis still face continued personal crisis hardships on our soil.”
Community doulas work toward birth equity
When Wakina Robertson birthed her twins in Buncombe County 30 years ago, it was a harder experience than it should have been. The babies arrived nine weeks early. “I wasn’t listened to,” she tells Xpress. “Did I want to have my babies early? … If I could have pushed a little longer to carry them […]