Oncology

Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health has broken ground on a radiation therapy facility that will offer two new therapies for patients with complex tumors. 

Neptune Township, N.J.-based Jersey Shore University Medical Center, part of Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health, has selected Roshani Patel, MD, to serve as medical director of breast surgery. 

Here are four hospitals and health systems that have opened new cancer facilities or shared plans to open new centers since Feb. 3.

Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health will be using new software this fall to support a common high quality evidence-based standard of cancer across its entire system, it said March 8.

Patient navigators have played a critical role in how Delaware has been able to lower cancer death rates and lessen racial disparities, NPR reported March 7. 

Registered nurses at Duarte, Calif.-based City of Hope will hold a silent protest and press conference March 10 to protest the hospital administration’s "refusal" to address patient care and safe-staffing concerns at the cancer treatment center.

Five oncology-related partnerships formed since Feb. 15:  

The following oncologists joined new practices, received new appointments or left roles in the last few weeks:

Mount Sinai Medical Center will launch a cancer center on its main campus in Miami Beach, South Florida Hospital News reported March 7.

A 15-member external advisory board for the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., resigned following the unexpected removal of the center's director, the Winston-Salem Journal reported March 6.