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Patient called for help from Mission bathroom 29 minutes before someone found him. By then, his heart stopped, new report shows.

By North Carolina Health News / Asheville Watchdog  
   August 18, 2025

A patient who died in February after calling for help in a Mission Hospital emergency department bathroom went 29 minutes with no response as multiple staff members passed by the door with a call light flashing above. By the time an employee entered the bathroom, the 54-year-old patient was slumped in a wheelchair, unresponsive, his heart no longer beating.

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