Press release

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (Jan. 18, 2013) – Mission Health has signed a 15-year lease on the facility at 50 Schenck Parkway in Biltmore Park, Asheville. Approximately 350 employees will consolidate to this site from multiple locations to improve customer service and internal efficiency.

“This facility will provide the space for expansion that a number of our non-clinical hospital departments need,” said True Morse, Vice President of Facilities with Mission Health. “We are continually looking at ways to improve how our facilities accommodate the functions they house. This is an opportunity to maximize efficiency for the foreseeable future.”

The Revenue Cycle Division, which includes the Patient Financial Services Division, will move to this location. The first group of employees is expected to relocate by the end of March, with the remainder of the moves anticipated by the end of June.

The site was previously occupied by Volvo Construction Equipment Rents.

About Mission Health
Mission Health, based in Asheville, N.C., is the state’s sixth-largest health system and the region’s only not-for-profit, independent community hospital system governed and managed exclusively in western North Carolina. In 2012 Mission Health was named one of the nation’s Top 15 Health Systems by Thomson Reuters – the only health system in North Carolina to receive this recognition.

Mission Health, which traces its roots in the region back to 1885, operates five hospitals, numerous outpatient and surgery centers, and the region’s only dedicated Level II trauma center. Its medical staff consists of more than 1,000 physicians and is certified in over 50 medical specialties and sub-specialties. Mission Health has seven Centers of Excellence: Cancer, Heart, Mission Children’s Hospital, Neurosciences, Orthopedics, Trauma and Women’s Health. Mission Hospital, located in Asheville, is the system’s flagship hospital and is licensed for 730 beds. It is the regional referral center for tertiary and quaternary care and is the busiest surgical hospital in North Carolina. It also includes Mission Children’s Hospital– the region’s only children’s hospital. Other Mission Health member hospitals include Angel Medical Center in Franklin, Blue Ridge Regional Hospital in Spruce Pine, McDowell Hospital in Marion and Transylvania Regional Hospital in Brevard. With approximately 8,800 employees and 700 volunteers, Mission Health is dedicated to improving the health and wellness of the people of western North Carolina.