The brave new worlds of healthcare and healthcare economics got me thinking about legendary University of Alabama football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant.
First I was assigned to write an article on voters' approval of a local ballot measure in California that capped executive pay at the public healthcare institution in Google's hometown, El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif., at twice that of the state's governor.
The El Camino Hospital pays CEO Tomi Ryba a $695,000 base salary to run its 361-bed, two-campus institution, and—eight days after the election—its board approved a $137,815 performance bonus (PDF) for her.
In contrast, Gov. Jerry Brown makes almost $174,000 as the state's CEO, but the California Citizens Compensation Commission—as part of state austerity measures—has knocked that down to $165,000 starting next month.
The hospital board has authorized taking legal action to challenge the ballot measure's directive, which would reduce Ryba's salary to $330,000.
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With the recent passing of Jerry Nelson, the voice of Sesame Street's Count von Count, I'm compelled to note that the 2012 edition of Modern Healthcare's 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare list had 18 first-timers, eight 11-timers, 78 men, 22 women and 25 doctors (20 men and five women).
No doctor is on the "perennial" list of eight people who made the list all 11 years of its existence.
In order of their appearance on this year's list, here are the names of the 25 physicians, followed by their titles and the number of times they've appeared on the Most Influential list:
No. 3, Dr. John Kitzhaber, governor of Oregon, (1); No. 17, Dr. John Noseworthy, president and CEO, Mayo Clinic, (2); No. 20, Dr. Regina Benjamin, U.S. Surgeon General, (3); No. 21, Dr. Delos "Toby" Cosgrove, (6); No. 26, Dr. Atul Gawande, professor, Harvard Medical School, (1); No. 29, Dr. Gary Gottlieb, president and CEO, Partners HealthCare System, (6); No. 32, Dr. Carolyn Clancy, director of HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, (10); No. 34, Dr. Farzad Mostashari, national coordinator for health information technology, (2); No. 41, Dr. Gary Kaplan, chairman and CEO, Virginia Mason Medical Center, (4); Dr. Susan Turney, president and CEO, MGMA-ACMPE, (1); No. 46, Dr. Thomas Frieden, director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (3); No. 50, Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, (7); No. 51, Dr. Mark Chassin, president of the Joint Commission, (5); No. 53, Dr. Glenn Steele Jr., president and CEO, Geisinger Health System, (4); No. 58, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, (3): No. 60, Dr. Francis Collins, director, National Institutes of Health, (3); No. 63, Dr. Harvey Fineberg, president, Institute of Medicine, (4); No. 64, Dr. Eric Topol, chief academic officer, Scripps Health, (2); No. 68, Dr. Bruce Siegel, president and CEO, National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems, (2); No. 75, Dr. Ralph de la Torre, chairman and CEO, Steward Health Care System, (1); No. 80, Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director, American Public Health Association, (6); No. 85, Dr. James Madara, executive vice president and CEO, American Medical Association, (1); No. 88, Dr. Richard Gilfillan, acting director, CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, (2); No. 94, Dr. Darrell Kirch, president and CEO, Association of American Medical Colleges, (5); and No. 97, Dr. Charles Sorenson, president and CEO, Intermountain Healthcare, (2).
Congratulations one and all. Was there an influential physician you thought should have been on the 2012 list? Let me know at arobeznieks@modernhealthcare.com. Follow Andis Robeznieks on Twitter: @MHARobeznieks.
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Dr. Jeremy Lazarus, the American Medical Association's new and 167th president, graduated from Chicago's Senn High School (class of '61), named after Nicholas Senn, the AMA's 49th president.
It's believed to be the first time that something like this has occurred.
Lazarus mentioned this coincidence in his inaugural address and stated that "say what you will about foreshadowing or fate," it was probably best that he didn't go to Michael Jordan Prep or Mike Ditka Magnet School.
Located in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood on the city's North Side, Senn is mostly known for having a large and diverse immigrant population. Its website notes that it was once listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the "Most Diverse School in the United States."
The website also notes that, out of 1,067 students, 415 were born outside the U.S. and 663 speak one of 44 languages other than English at home.
Some of these students are pictured on a slideshow on the school's home page, including a boy from Nepal who wants to be a neurosurgeon, another from Vietnam who wants to study medicine, a girl from Guinea who want to be a doctor and girl from Peru would like to work with Doctors Without Borders.
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