Cancer Hospital Fires Back in Fight Over Legislation
Monday, March 2nd, 2015
“Pure politics.”
That’s how Cancer Treatment Centers of America describes the opposition to legislation that would allow the cancer hospital to expand its capacity – and treat more Georgians.
“This is not about the citizens of Georgia,’’ said David Kent, chief operating officer of CTCA’s hospital in Newnan. “This is about [other] hospitals protecting their turf.”
Kent, in an interview with GHN, gave a passionate defense of House Bill 482, introduced Tuesday in the Georgia General Assembly. The proposal would eliminate a requirement that 65 percent of the cancer hospital’s patients come from out of state – a provision enacted by the Legislature in 2008 when it allowed CTCA to build the facility.
