As Mission Health announced its sale to HCA for $1.5 billion dollars , Western North Carolina’s other major hospital system, Duke LifePoint, is going through its own merger. For-profit Duke LifePoint is moving forward in a merger with much larger for-profit healthcare system RCCH Healthcare. Here’s what we know so far: Both Duke LifePoint and RCCH Healthcare are owned by even larger organizations. RCCH Healthcare is owned by private equity company Apollo Management Group which manages almost