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Where's Ralph?

Wednesday, July 8, 2015 14:33

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Back in 2011 and 2012, the CEO of Steward Health Care System was prominantly covered in the media for his prowess in orchestrating an alliance of the Boston Archdiocese, Democratic elected officials, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and community organizers to support the sale of the Caritas Christi hospital system to a private equity firm, and meanwhile, too, for hosting a campaign fund-raising event for President Obama. Commonwealth Magazine noted that Boston magazine, in its April “power issue,” put the CEO on its cover, ranking him 12th among the 50 most powerful people in Boston, right behind his counterpart at the much larger Partners HealthCare.

In recent months, the CEO has disappeared. When Quincy Medical Center was shuttered, for example, it was another corporate official who took center stage.

But now, we face a new set of issues calling for executive leadership, as set forth in the New York Times:

The CVS Health Corporation said on Tuesday that it would resign from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce after revelations that the chamber and its foreign affiliates were undertaking a global lobbying campaign against antismoking laws.

CVS, which last year stopped selling tobacco products in its stores, said the lobbying activity ran counter to its mission to improve public health.

Last week, Harvard health policy expert John McDonough said that the Chamber deserves “shame and disgrace” until the group stops its work on behalf “global merchants of death.”

Where’s the CEO?

The chief executive of the Steward Health Care System, Dr. Ralph de la Torre, serves on the board of the chamber. In a statement last week, Brooke Thurston, a spokeswoman for Steward, said: “If the chamber is in fact advocating for increased smoking, we do not agree with them on this public health issue.”

That’s it?

Steward’s owner Cerberus faced some tough public policy and financial issues in the past with its ownership of a major gun manufacturer. Ater the killing of Connecticut schoolchildren, it promised to divest those assets.

Tobacco sales are not synonomous with guns, but tobacco is widely recognized as a major public health hazard. It should be pretty easy for the CEO to say that Steward wants no role in encouraging the use of tobacco products or in supporting an organization that opposes reasonable controls on tobacco sales.

Source: http://runningahospital.blogspot.com/2015/07/wheres-ralph.html

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