Health Care Hall of Fame - 2015

The Health Care Hall of Fame award is one of healthcare industry’s most prestigious honors. A partnership between Modern Healthcare and the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), the program was created to recognize the men and women who have made extraordinary strides, outstanding and lasting contributions to the healthcare industry.  

Each year, two or three healthcare luminaries are inducted into the Modern Healthcare Hall of Fame. Since 1988, one hundred eleven (111) healthcare visionaries, original thinkers and leaders have been honored with this coveted distinction. A plaque to commemorate the honor is installed in the Health Care Hall of Fame, prominently displayed at Pennsylvania Hospital, the nation’s first hospital founded by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Bond.

For program eligibility, key dates and requirements, click here for more details.

View the Past Hall of Fame Inductees.

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Dr. Charles LeMaistre

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Jack Bovender

Video: 2015 Health Care Hall of Fame inductee Jack Bovender
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Video: 2015 Health Care Hall of Fame inductee Jack Bovender

HCA co-founder Dr. Thomas Frist Jr. says Jack Bovender had the quality of character he needed to right the company when it was shaken in the late 1990s. Bovender says leading an organization that takes care of people in need is a "beautiful thing to have been associated with all my life."

Video: 2015 Health Care Hall of Fame inductee Dr. Charles LeMaistre
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Video: 2015 Health Care Hall of Fame inductee Dr. Charles LeMaistre

Dr. Charles LeMaistre, now 91, is finishing a book chronicling the surgeon general's advisory committee on smoking and lung cancer he was appointed to in the early 1960s and the aftermath of the panel's landmark report. The former MD Anderson Cancer Center president also continues working to ensure cancer patients have access to treatments.

Leaders who took the difficult path
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Leaders who took the difficult path

The two men Modern Healthcare will induct into its Health Care Hall of Fame this year made their mark in similar ways. They took on unpopular causes whose successful resolution moved their institutions onto a higher plane.

Slide Show: 2015 Hall of Fame Inductee Dr. Charles LeMaistre
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Slide Show: 2015 Hall of Fame Inductee Dr. Charles LeMaistre
Dr. Charles LeMaistre considers a boyhood bout with appendicitis (and a rescue he credits to his German shepherd) as his introduction to medicine. He has spent much of his life working to fight and prevent cancer.

2015 Hall of Fame: Dr. Charles LeMaistre
Slide Show: 2015 Hall of Fame inductee Jack Bovender
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Slide Show: 2015 Hall of Fame Inductee Dr. Charles LeMaistre
Jack Bovender's career in healthcare spanned four decades, beginning with hospital administration as a young man in the U.S. Navy and culminating at the top of the executive ranks of HCA, the largest investor-owned hospital company in the U.S.

2015 Hall of Fame: Jack Bovender
Pennsylvania Hospital: A place for history and healthcare
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Pennsylvania Hospital: A place for history and healthcare

Healthcare isn't the only thing provided at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. History is also available in large doses throughout the campus.

Judges for the 2015 Health Care Hall of Fame
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Judges for the 2015 Health Care Hall of Fame

A distinguished panel of judges selected the 2015 inductees to the Health Care Hall of Fame. The six people who participated in the deliberations represent a variety of organizations associated with the healthcare industry.