St. Joseph's Hospital in Elmira, N.Y., has abruptly closed its cancer clinic following the sudden departure of Sydney Welt, MD, the oncologist who ran the clinic, according to a Star-Gazette report.
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Integris Canadian Valley Hospital in Yukon, Okla., has been ordered to pay $1 million to country singer Garth Brooks after a jury ruled the hospital breached its contract with the singer regarding a donation, according to a Houston Chronicle report.
A North Carolina legislative committee began hearings to consider whether the state, through public University of North Carolina Health Care, based in Chapel Hill, should continue to own Raleigh, N.C.-based Rex Healthcare, according to an News & Observer report.