Top 25 Women in Healthcare - 2011

Audrey Andrews is senior vice president and chief compliance officer for Tenet Healthcare Corp., where she is responsible for ethics and compliance programs at the Dallas-based for-profit hospital chain. Andrews, 44, oversees 89 compliance professionals and an annual budget of $13 million. Previously, she was vice president and assistant general counsel for Tenet. Andrews was named chief compliance officer in 2006, after Tenet had finalized a high-profile settlement with the Justice Department.Top 25 Women in Healthcare

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One of the highest-ranking executives at the nation's largest health insurer by revenue, Gail Boudreaux serves as executive vice president of Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealth Group and CEO of UnitedHealthcare's benefits business. She is responsible for 50,000 employees across four businesses that serve 37 million customers. Boudreaux, 50, came to UnitedHealth in 2008. She was previously a top executive at Health Care Service Corp., which operates Blues plans in four states. Top 25 Women in Healthcare

Carolyn Clancy, 51, has directed HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality since 2002, refocusing the agency's mission on the production and use of evidence to improve healthcare practice and policy. Her projects this year include spearheading a new collaborative effort with health professional groups to improve the quality of care in ambulatory settings and directing the establishment of a new $139 million initiative to improve quality and safety through greater use of health IT.Top 25 Women in Healthcare

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), a member of the Senate's Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, has turned her attention in recent years to quality improvements needed in the U.S. healthcare system, lauding the ability of healthcare information technology to achieve those goals. Clinton, 57, has called for improved research on quality of care, rewards for performance, and a national, interoperable IT infrastructure.Top 25 Women in Healthcare

Molly Joel Coye, 57, is founder and CEO of the Health Technology Center, a not-for-profit research and education center that works to advance the use of technology to improve safety and quality in healthcare. A physician and former director of California's Department of Health Services, Coye's work as a member of the Institute of Medicine-she co-authored the reports To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm-has earned her national recognition. She also serves on the American Hospital Association's board of trustees.Top 25 Women in Healthcare

Karen Davis is president of the Commonwealth Fund, a private nonpartisan philanthropy that supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve healthcare practice and policy. The fund awards about $16 million in grants each year. Davis, 62, is also a member of the governing council of the Institute of Medicine and a member of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.Top 25 Women in Healthcare

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As executive director of the 45,000-member California Nurses Association, the country's largest professional association and union for registered nurses, Rose Ann DeMoro helps shape public policy in California and throughout the U.S. DeMoro, 56, led the push for California's landmark nurse-to-patient ratios that took effect Jan. 1, 2004. Under her direction, the CNA also has achieved ground-breaking patient advocacy legislation such as whistle-blower protection and prohibitions on unsafe floating policies for nurses and mandatory overtime.Top 25 Women in Healthcare

Helping 1,500-plus not-for-profit hospitals and systems cut costs via bulk buying is the goal of Susan DeVore, president of Premier Purchasing Partners. DeVore, 46, has suppliers bid against one another for business in reverse auctions, which she hopes will save $68 million for hospitals by 2007. In 2003, Premier signed up more than 275 hospitals for the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration Project to test Medicare pay-for-performance.Top 25 Women in Healthcare

Since Teri Fontenot, 51, became president and CEO of 262-bed Woman's Hospital in Baton Rouge, La., net assets have grown from $61 million to $170 million and the hospital's birth rate has grown by almost 20%. Recently, Fontenot worked to pass a law protecting hospitals that provide regional referral services to Medicaid recipients from pay cuts being proposed by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals.Top 25 Women in Healthcare

Patricia Gabow, CEO and medical director of Denver Health, led the transition of Denver Health and Hospitals from a government department to an independent public authority. Gabow, 61, also a research nephrologist, is known for her dedication to improving access to healthcare for underserved communities in Colorado.Top 25 Women in Healthcare

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Karen Ignagni, 51, president and CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans, has long been considered among the most powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill. While heading up the former American Association of Health Plans she orchestrated the defeat of patients' rights legislation, and later led the October 2003 merger of the AAHP and the Health Insurance Association of America. Earlier, Ignagni held key positions with HHS, the AFL-CIO and the U.S. Senate's labor and human resources committee.Top 25 Women in Healthcare

Kathleen King, 53, former vice president of health policy at the National Academy of Social Insurance, began a new role this month as a director of healthcare for the Government Accountability Office, focusing on health insurance, Medicare and Medicaid. King's career in health policy includes posts as vice president of the Washington Business Group on Health and executive associate administrator of CMS' predecessor, HCFA.Top 25 Women in Healthcare

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Janet Marchibroda, 42, is CEO of eHealth Initiative, a not-for-profit organization that aims to drive improvement in healthcare quality, safety and efficiency through the use of health IT. The organization has 200 members representing all facets of the healthcare industry. Under her leadership, the initiative is working toward an interoperable, interconnected health information infrastructure at the local, regional, state and national levels.Top 25 Women in Healthcare

Margaret O'Kane is president of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, the group that accredits most of the nation's largest HMOs. O'Kane, 57, founded the NCQA in 1990 and has since made it the leading authority on healthcare quality assessment and performance measurement. She has been credited with elevating the discussion on quality improvement to the top of the healthcare agenda.Top 25 Women in Healthcare

Pamela Pure is executive vice president of McKesson Corp. and president of McKesson Provider Technologies. At the latter, a $1.4 billion division of McKesson, she is responsible for leading initiatives across a broad range of customer and operation activities. Credited with boosting software sales and increasing the company's international presence, Pure, 44, provides strategic vision and operational leadership with the goal of digitizing healthcare processes to improve care safety.Top 25 Women in Healthcare

Trish Riley, director of Maine's Governor's Office of Health Policy and Finance, is also director of Dirigo Health. Riley, 54, was the principal architect of the Dirigo Health Reform Act, designed to solve the cost and access problems within the state's healthcare system while ensuring that all of Maine's 1.3 million residents have access to healthcare by 2009.Top 25 Women in Healthcare

Diane Rowland, executive director of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, is an expert in federal policy relating to health insurance coverage; access to care; and healthcare financing for low-income, elderly and disabled populations. Rowland, 56, also serves on the board of the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy and the Secretary's Task Force on Infant Mortality.Top 25 Women in Healthcare

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