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Asheville | Investigative reporter with Asheville Watchdog.

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• Mission Health insurance plan quietly dropped MAHEC primary care. No one warned employees.

  By Andrew Jones Verified| Asheville Watchdog Verified Subscribe to our free Asheville Watchdog News Alerts and Watchdog Weekly Newsletter. Laura Law doesn’t know what she’s going to do. The Mission Hospital labor and delivery nurse expects nearly $6,000 in unforeseen medical bills after she took two of her three children to several standard primary care appointments with Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) doctors this year.

  By Andrew Jones Verified · Asheville Watchdog

  Apr. 17, 2025

• Medical examiners: Mission Hospital released more than 100 bodies before legally required review

  By Andrew Jones Verified| Asheville Watchdog Verified Subscribe to our free Asheville Watchdog News Alerts and Watchdog Weekly Newsletter. Since 2021, Mission Hospital has released at least 111 bodies to funeral homes before a legally required medical examiner’s review, according to a list of issues related to the hospital’s handling of deaths compiled by Buncombe County medical examiners and obtained by Asheville Watchdog. The list includes people who died of gunshot wounds, drug overdoses, choking and falling bricks.

  By Andrew Jones Verified · Asheville Watchdog

  Apr. 16, 2025

• Mother’s jailing over son's 4-year stay in Mission Hospital violated her civil rights, attorneys and experts say • Asheville Watchdog

  By Andrew Jones Verified| Asheville Watchdog Verified Subscribe to our free Asheville Watchdog News Alerts and Watchdog Weekly Newsletter. The mother of a patient who has been at Mission Hospital for nearly four years did not receive due process when a judge found her in contempt of court and ordered her jailed until her son leaves the hospital, Buncombe County public defenders and independent legal experts say. Tiffany Dobbs’ civil rights may have been violated because the judge didn’t explain she had a right to counsel during a Feb.

  By Andrew Jones Verified · Asheville Watchdog

  Apr. 11, 2025

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