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HCA Healthcare completed its $1.5-billion acquisition of western North Carolina's Mission Health in 2019, but the nonprofit sale to a for-profit entity hasn't been without scrutiny. Following reports from the local community of charity care that's difficult for patients to understand and declines in service, a slew of physician departures is now turning heads.
Dogwood Health Trust -- a foundation formed with proceeds from the sale to monitor HCA's compliance with obligations of the deal and to invest in the health and well-being of North Carolinians -- hasn't notified HCA of any issues of noncompliance to date. But the recent or impending loss of more than a dozen physicians has caught the attention of the North Carolina Attorney General's Office as well as the independent monitor put in place to advise Dogwood Health Trust.