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CARTI Hires 3 Managers, Physician

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CARTI of Little Rock this week named three new members of its management team and a new physician.

The cancer treatment center officially announced Katherine Friend as president of its CARTI Foundation effective May 7 and said Dr. Edgar D. St. Amour will join CARTI’s Imaging Center this summer. Arkansas Business previously reported both hires.

It also hired Drew Jackson as senior vice president of business development. Jackson begins work on June 1. And Christine Worth began work as director of human resources on Monday.

“We are excited to welcome Kathy, Drew, Christine and Dr. St. Amour to the team,” CARTI CEO Adam Head said in a news release. “Each brings a unique skill set that, when combined with their experience in health care, will be valuable assets as we continue mapping the growth of this organization and the advancement of our mission at CARTI.”

CARTI has been working to restructure its operations amid operating losses and its failure in 2016 to maintain its required coverage ratio on the $49 million bond issue it used to build its new four-story cancer center.

The turnaround plan involved a massive restructuring and culture change. Earlier this month, CARTI announced it had eliminated 22 positions, with 17 of the positions occupied. The move is expected to save CARTI $1.4 million annually.

Six of the employees who lost their job had worked directly with Dr. Brad Baltz, who was fired last month and who was CARTI’s highest-paid employee. CARTI now has about 400 full-time-equivalent employees.

Head detailed the nonprofit’s plans for a turnaround in an interview with Arkansas Business published on Monday. 

According to CARTI, Friend is returning to Arkansas after working as vice president of development of the Novant Health Foundations in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before that, Friend was senior vice president at Arkansas Children’s Foundation.

A Little Rock native, Jackson most recent worked as chief strategy officer of Arkansas Heart Hospital of Little Rock. He also worked as administrator of Arkansas Central Primary Care and Gastroenterology Associates.

Worth joins CARTI from Arkansas Federal Credit Union, where she most recently worked as assistant vice president of organizational development. 

St. Amour returns to Arkansas after completing a Fellowship for Vascular and Interventional Radiology at Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute. He attended medical school at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. St. Amour is also the co-founder of the nonprofit Humanitarian Radiology Development Corps, whose mission is sustainable health care and infrastructure in developing countries.  

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