Andrew Jones

Asheville

Investigative Reporter at Asheville Citizen Times

Investigative reporter with @AvlWatchdog | text/call/Signal: 828-674-9702 | email: arjones at avlwatchdog dot org | former - @asheville, @DailyTimes

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14-year-old dies by suicide at Weaverville mental health program run by owner of shuttered Trails Carolina

1 week ago | avlwatchdog.org | Andrew Jones

Subscribe to our free Asheville Watchdog News Alerts and Watchdog Weekly Newsletter. A 14-year-old died by suicide Saturday at a Weaverville residential treatment program for girls owned by the same company that ran a Transylvania County youth camp where a 12-year-old boy died in 2024. The death occurred at Asheville Academy, which serves 10- to 18-year olds, according to a Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office report.
State denies Novant bid to build South Asheville diagnostic center at former Gold’s Gym site

1 week ago | biltmorebeacon.com | Andrew Jones

Nonprofit hospital system Novant Health cannot build a diagnostic center in South Asheville, the North Carolina health department has decided, saying that it would have duplicated services in the region. The March 28 decision from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ Division of Health Service Regulation came nearly five months after Novant applied for the center through the state’s controversial Certificate of Need process.
Buncombe has ‘no statutory role’ in oversight of Mission morgue, county manager, commissioners say

1 week ago | avlwatchdog.org | Andrew Jones

Subscribe to our free Asheville Watchdog News Alerts and Watchdog Weekly Newsletter. Buncombe County doesn’t have any legal control over how its morgue is run, elected officials say, countering state health department statements in an Asheville Watchdog report that found more than 100 bodies had been released from Mission Hospital to funeral homes without legally required examinations.
State denies Novant bid to build South Asheville diagnostic center at former Gold's Gym site • Asheville Watchdog

2 weeks ago | avlwatchdog.org | Andrew Jones

Subscribe to our free Asheville Watchdog News Alerts and Watchdog Weekly Newsletter. Nonprofit hospital system Novant Health cannot build a diagnostic center in South Asheville, the North Carolina health department has decided, saying that it would have duplicated services in the region.
Healthcare coalition chastises Mission, HCA in ‘community shareholder’ meeting

2 weeks ago | avlwatchdog.org | Andrew Jones

Subscribe to our free Asheville Watchdog News Alerts and Watchdog Weekly Newsletter. A coalition of western North Carolina’s most vocal critics of HCA Healthcare and Mission Hospital gathered Thursday evening to take the community’s temperature on how the region’s largest hospital’s owner is doing. The reading was high.
Medical examiners: Mission Hospital released more than 100 bodies before legally required review

3 weeks ago | biltmorebeacon.com | Andrew Jones

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. Some of the bodies had to be returned to the hospital from funeral homes as far away as Georgia.
Mission Health insurance plan quietly dropped MAHEC primary care. No one warned employees.

3 weeks ago | avlwatchdog.org | Andrew Jones

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

4 weeks ago | avlwatchdog.org | Andrew Jones

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

1 month ago | avlwatchdog.org | Andrew Jones

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.
Mission attorneys file new motion to remove paralyzed patient from hospital

1 month ago | avlwatchdog.org | Andrew Jones

Subscribe to our free Asheville Watchdog News Alerts and Watchdog Weekly Newsletter. Attorneys for Mission Hospital have filed a motion requesting a judge appoint a referee in the case of Eric Penland Jr., a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic patient who’s remained at the hospital for nearly four years. According to the April 8 motion, his mother, Tiffany Dobbs, shouldn’t be able to leave jail until she provides documents and information facilitating his discharge from Mission.

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