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Georgia cancer treatment center engages consultants, wants to hire CFO

The only proton therapy center in Georgia, and one of only 36 in the nation, has engaged consultants to provide “interim administrative and operational management services” as well as accounting and finance management, according to a July 6 filing.

Baylor Scott & White adds 41 urgent care clinics to network

Forty-one urgent care clinics across Texas will join Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White’s network through a new partnership with NextCare Urgent Care.

Kronos settles massive healthcare data breach suit for $6M

Kronos, a time-keeping and human resources company now known as UKG, has paid $6 million to settle a December 2021 data breach lawsuit that affected multiple hospitals and health systems’ payrolls, Top Class Actions reported July 5. 

Mass General Brigham rehab hospital receives $6M gift

Mass General Brigham’s Spaulding Rehabilitation received a $6 million gift from an anonymous donor.

New CFO joining Temple Health in September

Gerald Oetzel has been selected as the new CFO for Temple University Health System and will join the Philadelphia-based system in early September. 

New York City's new healthcare accountability office: 4 things to know

New York City Mayor Eric Adams on June 23 signed a bill establishing the country’s first healthcare accountability office. Here are four things to know about the new office: 

Piedmont hospital appoints Dr. Efe Efemini to CMO role

Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare named Efe Efemini, MD, as chief medical officer of its Rockdale Hospital in Conyers, Ga.

Pioneering breast cancer surgeon dies at 75

Susan Love, MD, breast cancer surgeon, researcher and activist, died July 2 at age 75, the Los Angeles Times reported.

UVA Cancer Center shifts CAR-T therapy to outpatient setting

Charlottesville, Va.-based UVA Cancer Center is offering some patients chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy in an outpatient setting.

City may be liable for woman's hospital bill after paramedics take her to wrong hospital

A Colorado woman said paramedics put her life at risk by refusing to take her to her hospital of choice, and the city may be liable for her out-of-network hospital bills, CBS Colorado reported July 5.