A skirmish in the war against disease

CHAMPAIGN – Christie Clinic's new cancer center is set to open Monday in downtown Champaign, but a nearby hospital with a cancer center of its own says it's going to be hurt substantially by the new competition.

David Bertauski, chief executive of Provena Covenant Medical Center in Urbana, said Covenant will lose $1.5 million in annual revenue to Christie because the clinic won't send radiation therapy patients to the hospital for treatments.

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