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ASHEVILLE, N.C., Aug. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mission Health today announced that Kathy Guyette, RN, MSN, previously Chief Nursing Officer, will expand her role to become Senior Vice President, Patient Care Services for the Mission Health system. In that role, she will support the optimization of care across Mission Health in partnership with Chief Medical Officer Dale Fell, MD. Guyette's expanded responsibilities will include identifying best practices - both internal and...

ASHEVILLE, N.C., May 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mission Health today announced the appointment of Marc B. Westle, D.O., FACP, to the position of Senior Vice President of Innovation. Westle is an expert on healthcare delivery strategies and will lead incremental and transformational changes that support the achievement of Mission's BIG(GER) Aim. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120503/CL00742 ) Westle will identify and explore new options to improve the delivery of...

ASHEVILLE, N.C., April 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Biltmore welcomes springtime April 7 as the 27th Annual Festival of Flowers kicks off. Running through May 20, the festival celebrates the beauty of George Vanderbilt's 8,000-acre property and its original landscape design by Frederick Law Olmsted, father of American landscape architecture. Biltmore's gardens, Olmsted's final and most grand project, are in their 122nd year, and continue to mature and become more beautiful as time...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. , March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The beautiful scenery from Asheville and the North Carolina mountains appear in many movies. Most recently, The Hunger Games filmed in several locations near Asheville. According to RomanticAsheville.com Vacation Guide, here are the top 10 movie locations in western North Carolina: Biltmore Estate: The Biltmore House was first seen on the big screen in 1952 when The Swan opened starring Grace Kelly. More than a dozen other major...

ASHEVILLE, N.C., March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A visit to America's largest home often spurs this question among guests: "What was it like to be a Vanderbilt and live such an extraordinary life?" After years of research, Biltmore answers the question with a new exhibition beginning April 7, "The Vanderbilts at Home and Abroad." (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120307/CL66202 ) The exhibition provides a fascinating look at the lives of George, Edith and Cornelia...

ASHEVILLE, N.C., March 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Given the complexity of personality disorders, reading about them in a textbook just isn't enough to give Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College Nursing students the full scope of the conditions. A unique partnership with the College's Drama students using improvisation allows them to interact with "patients" to understand the best methods of treatment. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100908/DC61634LOGO)...

Asheville Travel Packages: Survival Skills, Celebrity Suites & Star Stalking ASHEVILLE, N.C., Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With the Academy Awards just days away, all eyes will be on the red carpet this week, but Oscar buzz will quickly shift to movie predictions for 2012. Critics are touting The Hunger Games. Set in post-apocalyptic Appalachia with a gripping (read: addictive) storyline rife with star-crossed teenage romance, kill-or-be-killed drama and...

Babyboomers are changing funeral rituals. Personalization is key. While there are countless online companies that sell outsourced, mass-produced memorials, Shine On Brightly provides unique, personalized, hand-crafted cremation urns, cremation jewelry, memorial portraits, hand-bound guest register books, and memorial glass for people and pets. Asheville, NC (PRWEB) January 28, 2012 If you've attended a funeral recently, you may have noticed the changing trends in end-of-life rituals,...

Mayors Issue Annual Report on Hunger, Homelessness in 29 Major Cities; Highlight Local Responses WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the midst of a struggling economy and continuing high levels of unemployment, U.S. cities are feeling the pressure from increased numbers of hungry and homeless families according to a U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) report on the status of Hunger and Homelessness in 29 cities in America (below) that was released today by the U.S....

Authorities Determine Fire Was Deliberately Set ASHEVILLE, N.C., Nov. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the city of Asheville and Asheville-Buncombe Crime Stoppers are offering a combined reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for setting the fire at the Medical Office Complex Building, 445 Biltmore Avenue, Asheville, N.C. Fire Department Captain...