Constructs canned food sculpture to also donate In honor of its enduring partnership, and in light of the important role MANNA FoodBank plays in Western North Carolina disaster relief efforts, HCA Healthcare has selected MANNA […]
I reluctantly write this piece but feel compelled to do so. To be clear, our Highlands-Cashiers Hospital has been a great asset to our community over the past five years. Tom Neal has provided outstanding […]
The Highlands Bolivian Mission Auction will be held at Wildcat Cliffs Country Club at 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 15. This year’s auction features some beautiful jewelry as Dr. John Baumrucker goes to Bolivia several times […]
The Highlands Bolivian Mission has been helping residents of the lowlands of Bolivia since 1998. The mission was started by Dr. John Baumrucker as a medical mission, but soon developed into new avenues including home […]
With an eye on the future and supporting healthcare throughout the Western North Carolina region, Mission Health on Friday celebrated the groundbreaking for its 82,500 square foot Angel Medical Center. “This construction project builds on […]
Mission Health’s Mountain Area Medical Airlift (MAMA) got a new helicopter earlier this month thanks to parent company HCA Healthcare. Pictured above is MAMA’s new helicopter landing and taking off from Highlands-Cashiers Hospital. MAMA provides […]
Mission Health has begun to reintroduce certain procedures and surgeries at its facilities across western North Carolina as it continues to monitor the dynamic shifts of the COVID-19 pandemic. “These procedures have been classified within […]
Within the next several days Mission Health plans to begin phasing back in certain services and procedures that were temporarily suspended due to COVID-19. To date, Mission Health has not seen the surge of COVID-19 […]
Mission Health announced the organization would be removing the emergency triage tents it placed at its hospitals last month. The tents, which were installed as part of standard emergency planning protocols and for training exercises, […]
Glenville-Cashiers Rescue Squad brought a victim to be airlifted from Blue Ridge School to Mission Hospital in Asheville after falling from a construction site in Glenville on Monday afternoon. GCRS responded to call at […]
Houston, no I mean, “Mission we have a problem.” It is not simply at the Highlands Cashiers Hospital, nor just at Angel Medical Center, it is the entire system that HCA now owns and operates […]
Representatives from Gibbons Advisors – the Independent Monitor of the HCA/Mission Health System – got an earful last week at public meetings in Cashiers, Highlands and Franklin. Citizens irate about decreasing or lack of services […]
Last Wednesday Gibbins Advisors, the monitor for the HCA/Mission transaction, held a public meeting at our recreation department. This inaugural meeting was one of several held in the region. The monitors outlined what their role […]
Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation (HCHF) has approved nearly $2.5 million dollars to area charities since its founding Feb. 1, 2019. The Foundation was reconstituted from the assets of the Highlands Cashiers Hospital Foundation when Mission […]