Non-profit Mission Healthcare’s $1.5 billion dollar sale to for-profit HCA Healthcare is all but done. However, this isn’t the first for-profit healthcare system operating in Western North Carolina. For-profit Duke LifePoint purchased facilities in Jackson, Haywood and Swain county four years ago. Now it’s going through its own changes. LifePoint Health is being bought by for-profit RCCH Healthcare which operates in 12 states and is owned by private equity firm Apollo Management Group. Steve