Jan Burford

Before Adam Head started as CARTI’s president and CEO seven months ago, he knew the cancer treatment organization needed a transfusion. read more >

Adam Head has been the chief operating officer of the Arkansas Heart Hospital in Little Rock since 2013, according to a CARTI news release on Tuesday. read more >

Jan Burford, the president and CEO of CARTI for more than 26 years, retired Friday as the cancer treatment organization continues to work through its financial issues. read more >

Nonprofits compete for the same private-sector labor as for-profit companies, but even those of us who seek out salary data have to be impressed with just how much medical professionals are being paid. read more >

Of the top six positions on this year’s list of the highest-paid nonprofit employees ranked by total compensation, four are occupied by CARTI physicians. read more >

CARTI already was experiencing operating losses before it opened its $88 million cancer center in west Little Rock last November. Since then, operating losses have widened to $20.5 million over the last three fiscal years and a financial benchmark for its $49 million bond wasn't reached. read more >

CARTI's $88 million cancer center in west Little Rock offers medical, surgical, interventional and radiation oncology, diagnostic radiology and hematology services. read more >

Jan Burford, president and CEO of CARTI, talks about buying physician practices, moving into a new corporate headquarter, the effects of the Affordable Care Act and more. read more >

The opening of CARTI’s $90 million cancer center in the fall of 2015 can’t come soon enough for CARTI President and CEO Jan Burford. In December 2011, the nonprofit CARTI was treating about 3,000 patients a year. CARTI then began adding doctor groups, and it is now seeing about 20,000 patients annually, Burford said. read more >