Mission Health permanently shutters Asheville specialty hospital

Mission Health permanently shutters Asheville specialty hospital 
NC Health News; by Andrew R. Jones; 11/30/24 
Long-term care facility was only one of its kind in western North Carolina; patients will have to seek care elsewhere.  Mission Health has permanently closed Asheville Specialty Hospital, the only long-term acute care hospital in western North Carolina, less than two months after suspending its services following Tropical Storm Helene. “We have made the difficult decision to not reopen Asheville Specialty Hospital, a small, long-term acute care facility located inside the St. Joseph’s campus,” Mission Health spokesperson Nancy Lindell said Nov. 25. “We have had to focus on prioritizing our resources during and after Hurricane Helene to care for the most urgent medical needs of our community." ... The next closest long-term acute facility, or LTACH, is in Greenville, South Carolina, a little more than 60 miles away.