The latest death occurs during “enhanced” federal safety monitoring following 4th immediate jeopardy citation since 2021.

City of Asheville and Buncombe County resolutions have called for him to visit the region and meet with officials.

It received conditional approval – now contested – to increase patient capacity by 13 percent; staff is projected to grow 3.7 percent.

The move is the latest twist in the battle over the county’s healthcare marketplace, where long-dominant Mission Hospital has faced multiple federal sanctions.

Competing proposals from AdventHealth, UNC Health are rejected; Novant Health gets green light for 34-bed hospital in Arden.

Despite modest growth in the number of OB physicians and certified nurse midwives, dozens of North Carolina counties have no clinicians or facilities for care.

An adult case brings the county’s total to seven since Jan. 1 and increases North Carolina’s statewide total to 18.

The meetings come after federal authorities — again — placed Mission Hospital in “immediate jeopardy,” the most serious sanction a hospital can face.

Sanction among most serious a hospital can face, puts crucial federal funding at risk

The new guidance allows early infant doses and no-cost shots for adults as transmission moves beyond travel-linked cases