NC Dept of Labor Fines Mission Health for Violations

Asheville -- March 27, 2022: The North Carolina Department of Labor has cited Mission Health and two affiliates

for violating health and safety laws. HCA Healthcare, which owns Mission Health, was fined almost $30,000.

The citations stem from eight violations including not reporting a work-related COVID-19 hospitalization or the employee’s subsequent death in November 2021.

Also cited were HCA Healthcare and Copestone, a mental health service that is part of Mission Health, for failing to ensure that respirator masks such as N-95 masks were fit-tested or tracking fit-testing in October 2021. The N-95 respirator masks are worn by staff when working with COVID-positive patients.

National Nurses Organizing Committee, which represents 1,500 nurses at Mission Health, applauded action.

Wnctimes by Marjorie Farrington