Bad places for nurses to work: Hospitals with black marks against them. This list is the opposite of Magnet. List of the worst hospital behavior
Certain hospitals have engaged in behavior that has been egregious toward nurses. In our opinion, nurses should not work at the following hospitals because of their past history of abusive treatment toward nurses: (right now, there is just one large hospital conglomerate on this list. If you more to suggest, please send us information at info@truthaboutnursing.org. Thank you!
Mission Hospital, Asheville, North Carolina and its affilliates
Memorial Campus
509 Biltmore Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801St. Joseph Campus
428 Biltmore Avenue
A sheville, NC 28801
Affilliates of Mission Hospital, North Carolina
Asheville Specialty Hospital, 428 Biltmore Ave. 4th Floor, Asheville, NC 28801
Angel Medical Center in its many locations in Franklin, North Carolina
Angel Medical Center
120 Riverview Street
Franklin, NC 28734Angel Urgent Care
195 Franklin Plaza
Franklin, NC 28734Angel Cancer Center
834 Depot Street
Franklin, NC 28734Angel Rehabilitation Services
834 Depot Street
Franklin, NC 28734Angel Cardiac Rehabilitation
55 Medical Park Drive, Suite 100
Franklin, NC 28734Angel Pediatrics
56 Medical Park Drive, Suite 204
Franklin, NC 28734Mission Women's Care - Franklin
190 Riverview Street, Suite 2
Franklin, NC 28734Asheville Cardiology Associates - Franklin
55 Medical Park Drive
Franklin, NC 28734Cancer Center of WNC Franklin
834 Depot Street, Suite 210
Franklin, NC 28734Asheville Orthopaedic Associates
56 Medical Park Drive, Suite 303
Franklin, NC 28734Carolina Spine and Neurosurgery Center
120 Riverview Street
Franklin, NC 28734Mission Spine Center
120 Riverview Street
Franklin, NC 28734Angel Orthopaedics
120 Riverview Street
Franklin, NC 28734Mission Sleep Center
120 Riverview Street
Franklin, NC 28734Blue Ridge Regional Hospital, in its many locations in Asheville, Spruce Pine, and Burnsville, North Carolina
Mission Community Obstetrics and Gynecology - Spruce Pine
125 Hospital Drive
(Second Floor of Hospital)
Spruce Pine, NC 28777Mission Community Obstetrics and Gynecology - Burnsville
800 Medical Campus Drive
Burnsville, NC 28714Cancer Care of WNC - Spruce Pine
125 Hospital Drive
Spruce Pine, NC 28777Mission Community Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - Blue Ridge
189 Hospital Drive
Spruce Pine, NC 28777Mission Community Primary Care - Spruce Pine
189 Hospital Drive
Spruce Pine, NC 28777Mission Community Primary Care - Grassy Creek
11728 S 226 Hwy
Spruce Pine, NC 28777Blue Ridge Medical Center - Yancey Campus
800 Medical Campus Drive
Burnsville, NC 28714Mission Community Surgical Specialists and Wound Care
189 Hospital Drive
Spruce Pine, NC 28777Mission Community Pain Management
189 Hospital Drive
Spruce Pine, NC 28777Blue Ridge Hospitalist
125 Hospital Drive
Spruce Pine, NC 28777Blue Ridge Scheduling Center
800 Medical Campus Drive
Burnsville, NC 2871468 Sweeten Creek Road
Asheville, NC 28803Highlands-Cashiers Hospital in its three locations
Highlands-Cashiers Hospital
190 Hospital Drive
Highlands, NC 28711Eckerd Living Center
250 Hospital Drive
Highlands, NC 28711Highlands-Cashiers Hospital Physical Therapy - Cashiers
73 Slab Town Road
Cashiers, NC 28717McDowell Hospital in its many locations in Morgantown, Marion, Nebo and Old Fort, North Carolina
McDowell Hospital
430 Rankin Drive
Marion, NC 28752McDowell Pediatrics
387 US 70 West
Marion, NC 28752McDowell OB/GYN
1633 Sugar Hill Road, Suite 1
Marion, NC 28752Asheville Orthopaedic Associates - Marion
100 Spaulding Road, Suite 1
Marion, NC 28752Carolina Spine and Neurosurgery Center - Marion
100 Spaulding Road
Marion, NC 28752McDowell Urgent Care
472 Rankin Drive
Marion, NC 28752Community Medicine Old Fort
32 East Main Street
Old Fort, NC 28762McDowell Internal Medicine
1633 Sugar Hill Road
Marion, NC 28752Family Medicine Glenwood
5623 Hwy 221 South
Marion, NC 28752Family Medicine Nebo
339 Nebo School Road
Nebo, NC 28761McDowell Surgical Services
472 Rankin Drive
Marion, NC 28752McDowell Wound Healing
472 Rankin Drive
Marion, NC 28752McDowell Urology
472 Rankin Drive
Marion, NC 28752McDowell Women's Care
472 Rankin Drive
Marion, NC 28752Mission My Care Specialty
149 West Parker Road
Morganton, NC 28655Mission Primary Care -Burke
149 West Parker Road
Morganton, NC 28655McDowell Pain Management
100 Spaulding Road
Marion, NC 28752McDowell Hospitalists
430 Rankin Drive
Marion, NC 28752Transylvania Regional Hospital, in Brevard, North Carolina
Transylvania Regional Hospital
260 Hospital Drive
Brevard, NC 28712Transylvania Regional Hospital Cardio-Pulmonary Rehabilitation
260 Hospital Drive
Brevard, NC 28712Transylvania Regional Hospital Rehabilitation Services
316 Chestnut Street, Suite 1
Brevard, NC 28712Transylvania Regional Hospital Sleep Center
159 Medical Park Drive
Brevard, NC 28712Brevard Cancer and Infusion Center
89 Hospital Drive, Suite A
Brevard, NC 28712Transylvania Women's Care
87 Medical Park Drive, Suite B
Brevard, NC 28712Asheville Cardiology Associates - Brevard
89 Medical Park Drive, Suite C
Brevard, NC 28712Cancer Care of WNC - Brevard
89 Hospital Drive, Suite A
Brevard, NC 28712Carolina Spine and Neurosurgery Center - Brevard
316 Chestnut Street
Brevard, NC 28712Brevard Orthopaedics
316 Chestnut Street, Suite 2
Brevard, NC 28712
Joshua Klaaren, a physician's assistant who worked in Mission's staff health clinic for six years, until late 2012... says it was "pretty common to see nurses and [nurses' assistants] who have hurt their back, who have pulled their back with managing patients, moving patients, lifting patients, sliding patients. It [was] very, very, very common." Klaaren and his fellow occupational health specialists would conclude that those employees had been injured on the job.
But Klaaren says it also was "commonplace" for hospital officials to ignore what their occupational medical staff said. In fact, Klaaren and other medical specialists from Mission's staff clinic -- who talked only on condition that we withhold their names, for fear of retaliation -- told NPR that whenever they examined injured employees, they were required to fill out a form with the employee's name, date of injury, and diagnosis, followed by a section with two boxes: "In our opinion, injury or illness is" or "is not work related."
Hospital officials ordered the occupational health staff not to check either box, Klaaren and other sources told NPR. Instead, hospital administrators filled them out -- even if they had not seen the injured employee.
There are public court records that scold Mission Hospital for mistreating injured employees. Every state has a workers' compensation court, so injured employees can appeal if a company won't help them. North Carolina's court -- the North Carolina Industrial Commission -- and the state Court of Appeals have ruled repeatedly in recent years that Mission Hospital refused to help injured nurses and others despite clear evidence that they got hurt on the job.
For example, the court ruled in 2002, in the case of an injured employee named Jennifer Rosenfelt, that Mission's refusal to cover some of her medical care was "based upon stubborn, unfounded litigiousness."
In 2012, judges on the workers' compensation court got so upset with Mission in the case of an injured employee named Cathy Goff -- they said the hospital had given the court information that was "not credible" and even "false" -- that they said Mission should be investigated for fraud.
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