Written by Andrew R. Jones, Asheville Watchdog.
Three staff neurologists are leaving Mission Hospital by the end of September, potentially leaving only two to provide critical care to hundreds of patients at the Asheville flagship hospital and across western North Carolina, including many who have suffered strokes.
The departing physicians are neurohospitalists, specialists who treat patients in the hospital who are suffering diseases of the brain, spinal cord and nervous system. They cover patients in general admission and in the intensive care unit (ICU) and respond to strokes throughout the hospital. They also provide 13 regional hospitals with telestroke services, remotely consulting on stroke patients while teams at those sites do hands-on work…