North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein is asking the state Department Health and Human Services deny HCA Healthcare-owned Mission Hospital’s application to expand in Buncombe County, Citizen Times reports.
Stein’s request came in a letter dated July 25, in which he said Mission had “almost no competition” for acute care in Buncombe County.
The for-profit Mission is competing with two other nonprofit hospital systems, AdventHealth and Novant Health, for a certificate of need to build 67 new beds in the county. Read more.