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As long as she can remember, Joanne Conroy has been a risk taker. But the biggest roll of the dice of her career may have come in 2008, when she resigned as a hospital president to become chief healthcare officer for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).

The Commonwealth Fund reprints an intriguing article from Congressional Quarterly about how several of the nation's leading healthcare institutions are not planning to participate as accountable care organizations.

The latest issue of Fast Company magazine has a remarkable story about a turnaround at a public hospital - Alameda County Medical Center in Oakland, Calif. The article seems destined to make the architect of that renaissance, CEO Wright L. Lassiter III, a national figure.

The banner headline in the photo at left comes from a recent edition of the Chicago Tribune, where a front-page story on the release of Hospital Acquired Conditions (HAC) data shows how patient safety has breached the walls of the healthcare industry and has become a viral topic of sorts, growing increasingly important to the public at large.

Eighteen new honorees joined the ranks as Modern Healthcare unveiled the fourth installment of its Top 25 Women in Healthcare awards sponsored by Furst Group.

Next week, we'll link you to Modern Healthcare's Top 25 Women in Healthcare awards, sponsored by Furst Group.

BNET's Sean Silverthorne has an intriguing post on a new study called "What Do CEOs Do?",spearheaded by Harvard researcher Rafaella Sadun. The study found that CEOs who spent the majority of their time with people inside the company were arguably more successful than top execs who dealt more with outsiders. The result, they say, is better profits, stronger governance and more productivity.