Mission St. Joseph's Health System.

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Ailing is the common way to describe the health-care industry these days, but Asheville-based Mission St. Joseph's Health System seems to be showing vital signs. It spent $2.8 million to buy a church complex on about five acres on Hendersonville Road, where it plans to transfer nonclinical workers. Then, the system -- the product of the 1998 merger of Mission and St. Joseph's hospitals -- popped up on a ranking of the nation's...