Mission-HCA Deal

Dogwood Health Trust Breaks Down Over $40 Million Spent During Its First Year

By Lilly Knoepp • Oct 29, 2020

Dogwood Health Trust, the foundation created to disburse the profits of the sale of Mission Health, is required to host an annual public meeting. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic the meeting was hosted via Zoom this week.

About 600 people virtually attended Dogwood Health Trust's first annual public meeting.

Janice Brumit, chair of the Dogwood board, reports the foundation has given out about $40 million in total across the 18-county region it covers including the Qualla Boundary.

HCA Says COVID-19 Won't Impede Promised Projects

By Lilly Knoepp • Apr 24, 2020

HCA Healthcare’s CEO announced this week that the health system would be limiting its capital projects because of the COVID-19 Health crisis.

“The Company believes the extent of COVID-19’s adverse impact on its operating results and financial condition will be driven by many factors, most of which are beyond the Company’s control and ability to forecast,” states HCA’s first quarter report.

In Rural WNC, Induced Births Are On The Rise

By Lilly Knoepp • Feb 26, 2020

The closure of several labor and delivery units at hospitals across Western North Carolina means more mothers and their doctors are planning births differently.

Dr. Suzanne Dixon has been an OBGYN with the Mountain Area Health Education Center for about 8 years. Most of the time she works in Asheville but she spends 2 days a week in Franklin at Mission Women’s Care.

“I’ve been the only one doing the women’s work at that practice,” says Dixon.

First WNC Legacy Foundation Opens Grant Application After Mission Health Sale

By Lilly Knoepp • May 31, 2019

The sale of the Mission Health System means more than $1-billion in proceeds would be awarded to groups in Western North Carolina through grants. The first grant applications are now being accepted by one legacy foundation of its hospitals. BPR attended one of the workshops for the grant in Cashier.

McDowell-Native Added To Dogwood Health Trust Board

By Lilly Knoepp • May 23, 2019

Dogwood Health Trust has announced that it has added Dawna Goode-Ledbetter to the organization’s board of directors.

Goode-Ledbetter is a native of McDowell County. She currently serves as executive treasurer of the McDowell Chamber of Commerce and as vice-chair of the McDowell County Health Coalition.

Goode-Ledbetter is the 13th member of the Dogwood Health Trust Board of Directors.

WNC Still Waiting On NC Attorney General’s Response To Mission-HCA Deal

By Lilly Knoepp • Oct 15, 2018

Mission Health has finalized their deal with HCA but it isn’t done yet. The deal is currently on the desk of NC Attorney General Josh Stein. Stein is expected to approve or amend the deal near the end of November.

Mission Health’s deal will affect 18 counties in Western North Carolina so each community has a chance to send letters to Stein voicing their concerns about the deal or their support.