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The nonprofit group acquired three urgent care clinics in Asheville and Black Mountain in May and submitted a certificate of need application for the 67-bed acute care hospital in Buncombe County.
Mission Health, based in Asheville, North Carolina, is the state's sixth-largest health system, serving much of western North Carolina.A sale to HCA Healthcare became final on February 1, 2019, in which it was sold as a nonprofit to a for-profit company. [1]
A bone fracture (abbreviated FRX or Fx, F x, or #) is a medical condition in which there is a partial or complete break in the continuity of any bone in the body. In more severe cases, the bone may be broken into several fragments, known as a comminuted fracture. [1]
That being said, alendronate was identified as the most efficacious for secondary prevention of vertebral and hip fractures while zoledronate showed better performance for nonvertebral non-hip fracture prevention. [172] There is concern that many people do not receive appropriate pharmacological therapy after a low-impact fracture. [173]
Microfracture surgery is an articular cartilage repair surgical technique that works by creating tiny fractures in the underlying bone. This causes new cartilage to develop from a so-called super-clot.
Highland Hospital (Asheville, North Carolina) Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about hospitals or medical centers which are associated with the same title.
A compression fracture is a collapse of a vertebra. It may be due to trauma or due to a weakening of the vertebra (compare with burst fracture ). This weakening is seen in patients with osteoporosis or osteogenesis imperfecta , lytic lesions from metastatic or primary tumors , [ 1 ] or infection. [ 2 ]
Several Asheville agency volunteers provided free services for the unhoused and at-risk community members and their pets on April 13, 2024.