The North Carolina Office of Administrative Hearings has reaffirmed the approval of Mission Health’s certificate-of-need application for a $29 million freestanding emergency department in Candler, N.C., about 11 miles west of Asheville. Mission Health, a division of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA…
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