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22 Sign up for the COMPLIMENTARY Becker's Hospital Review CEO Report & CFO Report E-Weeklies at www.BeckersHospitalReview.com or call (800) 417-2035 and Nevada. Dignity Health is the fifth-largest hospital system in the nation.Towards the end of the year, the health system broke off acquisition talks with Ashland (Ore.) Community Hospital, the first hospital with which Dignity talked about partnership after its 2012 re-branding. Ralph de la Torre, MD. Dr. de la Torre is the president and CEO of Boston-based Steward Health Care System, a two-year-old hospital system formed by the sale of Caritas Christi Health Care to Steward in 2010. He was also the youngest chief of cardiac surgery in the history of any Harvard teaching hospital. Since its inception, the 10-hospital system has attracted providers from Massachusetts-based Tufts Medical Center, Partners HealthCare and Beth Israel Deaconess. Nancy-Ann DeParle. Ms. DeParle is the current deputy chief of staff for policy in the administration of President Obama, a position she assumed in January 2011. Prior to that, she served as director of the White House Office of Health Reform, leading the administration's efforts on healthcare issues. She has also served as the director of the Health Care Financing Administration, administering the Medicare program for the Clinton administration. Thomas C. Dolan, PhD, FACHE, CAE. Dr. Dolan is the president and CEO of the American College of Healthcare Executives, an international professional society of more than 40,000 healthcare executives who lead hospitals, healthcare systems and other healthcare organizations. Dr. Dolan served as ACHE's executive vice president prior to being named president and CEO and has also held a variety of teaching, research and administrative positions. Trevor Fetter. Mr. Fetter is the president and CEO of Tenet Healthcare Corp., an investorowned healthcare system based in Dallas. Tenet owns and operates 49 acute-care hospitals in 11 states and 90 outpatient centers in 12 states, with a majority of these hospitals in California, Florida and Texas. In February 2000, Mr. Fetter left Tenet to serve as CEO and chairman of Broadlane. In November 2002, he returned as Tenet's president and was named CEO in 2003. Teri Fontenot, FACHE. Ms. Fontenot is chair of the American Hospital Association and the president and CEO of Woman's Hospital in Baton Rouge, La., a 350-bed regional referral hospital for obstetrics, newborn and women's care. In August 2012, the hospital completed its $340 million replacement campus, which increases the capacity for current services. Ms. Fontenot will step down from her position as the chair of the AHA Board of Trustees at the end of 2012. Thomas Frieden, MD. Dr. Frieden is director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a position he has held since May 2009. Prior to his current position, he served as the New York City Health Commissioner, a position in which he introduced the city's first comprehensive health policy targeting ten leading causes of preventable illness and death. He was also an active proponent of electronic health records, launching the nation's largest community-based EHR project. Atul Gawande, MD. Dr. Gawande is a surgeon, writer and public health researcher who practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He is also a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School for Public Health. Dr. Gawande has written three New York Times bestselling books on healthcare: "Complications," "Better" and "The Checklist Manifesto." Alex Gorsky. Mr. Gorsky, CEO of pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, was named to the helm of the company in February 2012, succeeding William Weldon. His current tenure with the company is Mr. Gorsky's second stint with Johnson & Johnson; he originally served as company group chairman of J&J's pharma business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa before leaving to join Novartis in 2004. He returned to J&J in 2008 to become company group chairman of Ethicon. Glenn Hackbarth, JD. Mr. Hackbarth is chairman of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, more commonly known as MedPAC, which recommends reimbursement rates to Congress. He previously served as CEO and one of the founders of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, a multi-specialty group practice in Boston that serves as a major teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. George C. Halvorson. Mr. Halvorson is the chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, a role he will hold through the end of 2013. Kaiser Permanente announced on Nov. 5 that Mr. Halvorson will be succeeded by Bernard J. Tyson. With more than nine million members and nearly $50 billion in annual revenue, Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser is the biggest system that combines insurance plans and healthcare providers under a single umbrella. Charles "Chip" Kahn III. Mr. Kahn is the president and CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals, whose member companies own nearly 20 percent of all American hospital beds. Mr. Kahn and the FAH represent their members on issues such as healthcare reform and hospital care quality improvement. Mr. Kahn also serves as a member of the governing board of the National Quality Forum. Sister Carol Keehan, DC. Sister Keehan is the ninth president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association of the United States, a ministry of the Roman Catholic Church that comprises more than 600 hospitals and 1,400 long-term care and other health facilities in all 50 states. The association is the largest group of non-profit healthcare providers in the nation. John Kitzhaber, MD. Dr. Kitzhaber is the 37th and current governor of Oregon and the first person to be elected to the office three times. Prior to becoming a politician in Oregon, he was a practicing emergency room physician. During his tenure in the Oregon State Senate, to which he was elected in 1980, Dr. Kitzhaber was the chief author of the state's government-funded healthcare plan, the Oregon Health Plan. Jeremy Lazarus, MD. Dr. Lazarus, a Denver psychiatrist in private practice, was inaugurated in June as the 167th president of the American Medical Association, the nation's largest and most influential physician organization, in June. Dr. Lazarus was first elected to the AMA Board of Trustees in 2003 and has served as speaker and vice speaker of the House of Delegates, the association's primary policy-making body. Daniel Levinson. Mr. Levinson has headed the Office of Inspector General for HHS since 2004. As Inspector General, he is the senior official responsible for audits, evaluations, investigations and law enforcement efforts related to HHS programs. Prior to his appointment at HHS, he served for four years as Inspector General of the U.S. General Services Administration. Margaret Ann Hamburg, MD. Dr. Hamburg serves as commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency of HHS responsible for regulating and supervising food safety, tobacco products, dietary supplements, drugs and other products. She was one of the youngest people ever elected to the Institute of Medicine and is a highly-regarded expert in community health and bio-defense. H. Stephen Lieber, CAE. Mr. Lieber has served as president and CEO of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, since 2000. During his tenure, Mr. Lieber has more than quadrupled the organization's size and expanded its scope to encompass ambulatory IT issues and healthcare business information systems, in addition to HIMSS' historical leadership in the acute-care clinical information systems area. Stephen J. Hemsley. Mr. Hemsley has been CEO of UnitedHealth Group since 2006 and joined the company in 1997, prior to which he served as managing partner and CFO at Arthur Andersen. UnitedHealth Group serves approximately 70 million individuals nationwide and is the parent of UnitedHealthcare, the largest single health carrier in the country. Steven H. Lipstein. Mr. Lipstein is president and CEO of BJC Healthcare, based in St. Louis, a health system with annual revenues of $3.5 billion and more than 26,000 employees. Mr. Lipstein has served as president of the health system since 1999, in addition to his work with the St. Louis Regional Health Commission and the Missouri Hospital Association.

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