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NC Attorney General Approves Healthcare Sale, And Dolly Parton Gives Back Again

WUNC | By Frank Stasio,
Amanda Magnus
Published January 18, 2019 at 12:43 PM EST

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein gave the green light for a major healthcare sale in western North Carolina. He approved the sales contract of nonprofit Mission Health to for-profit company HCA Healthcare — with some changes. One of those changes will require HCA to keep operating its rural hospitals for 10 years. 

Host Frank Stasio talks with western North Carolina reporter Lilly Knoepp about

The original contract only required five years. The attorney general also called for more diversity on the board of directors of the charitable foundation that will control the proceeds of the sale.

Host Frank Stasio talks to Lilly Knoepp about the details of this story. Knoepp is a reporter who covers western North Carolina at Blue Ridge Public Radio. She also shares her reporting on the $12.5 million Dolly Parton gave to Sevier County after devastating wildfires. 

NC Attorney General Josh Stein.
Courtesy of Matt Bush at Blue Ridge Public Radio /
NC Attorney General Josh Stein.

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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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Amanda Magnus
Amanda Magnus grew up in Maryland and went to high school in Baltimore. She became interested in radio after an elective course in the NYU journalism department. She got her start at Sirius XM Satellite Radio, but she knew public radio was for her when she interned at WNYC. She later moved to Madison, where she worked at Wisconsin Public Radio for six years. In her time there, she helped create an afternoon drive news magazine show, called Central Time. She also produced several series, including one on Native American life in Wisconsin. She spends her free time running, hiking, and roller skating. She also loves scary movies.
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