Health Reformers Dominate Magazine's List of the Top 25 Women in Healthcare

Modern Healthcare's list features 18 newcomers with the power and influence to
improve the healthcare system

CHICAGO, April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Key players in the movement to reform the
nation's healthcare system dominate Modern Healthcare's list of the Top 25
Women in Healthcare for 2009. Among those making the list are Kathleen
Sebelius, secretary-designate of the U.S. Health and Human Services
Department; Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the newly created White House
Office of Health Reform; and Mary Wakefield, administrator of the federal
Health Resources and Services Administration.

"With so many women in positions of authority in healthcare, the chances of
changing the system for the better are greater than ever," said David Burda,
editor of Modern Healthcare. "Our Top 25 Women in Healthcare were not
satisfied with the status quo of the healthcare executive career track. They
surely won't be satisfied with the status quo of the healthcare system they
increasingly run."

The list is the publication's third biennial list of the Top 25 Women in
Healthcare. The previous lists appeared in 2005 and 2007.

The 2009 list features 18 newcomers, including Patricia Hemingway Hall, CEO of
the Health Care Service Corp., one of the nation's largest health insurance
companies; Mary Kay Henry, international executive vice president of the
Service Employees International Union; and Susan Sheridan, co-founder and
president of Consumers Advancing Patient Safety.

Modern Healthcare readers nominated nearly 200 women to be considered for the
2009 recognition.

This year's list appears in the April 20 issue of Modern Healthcare. The list
also appears on the magazine's Web site, ModernHealthcare.com.

Modern Healthcare will be conducting its fourth biennial Top 25 Women in
Healthcare recognition program in 2011.

For more information on Modern Healthcare's list of the Top 25 Women in
Healthcare for 2009, contact Editor David Burda at 312-649-5439 or
dburda@modernhealthcare.com.

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SOURCE Modern Healthcare

Brenda Stewart, +1-312-649-5499, bstewart@crain.com, for Modern Healthcare