Latest Edition of Ethisphere Magazine Focuses on Business Ethics in the Healthcare Industry

New York – May 26, 2010 – Amid the national debate on healthcare industry reform, the Ethisphere Institute, a leading international think-tank dedicated to the creation, advancement and sharing of best practices in business ethics and compliance, today announced that the latest issue of Ethisphere Magazine will focus on ethical issues in the healthcare industry. Like all issues of Ethisphere Magazine, the Q1 edition, dubbed the “Healthcare Issue,” covers the most recent ethics and compliance activities in the business world, with this quarter’s issue focusing particularly on ethical issues and practices across various sectors of the healthcare industry.

“Recently, there’s been more scrutiny of healthcare politics and changing of the landscape of the healthcare industry than we’ve seen in the past,” Ethisphere Executive Director Alex Brigham said. “However, with all that’s been written and debated, not much attention has been paid to the ethics of healthcare as a business. We created the Healthcare Issue of Ethisphere Magazine to fill that void and, hopefully, to provide the basis for a very robust conversation on the state of, need for and importance of business ethics within the healthcare industry.”

For added insight, Ethisphere enlisted Alan Yuspeh, Senior Vice President and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer of HCA, Inc., as the guest editor of the issue.

“Alan Yuspeh is extremely respected within his field and brings a tremendous amount of in-the-trenches experience to such a timely and critical issue for this industry,” said Stefan Linssen, editor-in-chief of Ethisphere Magazine. “We were very pleased to work with him on this project and think his experience and insight will offer significant value to both those in the healthcare industry and compliance and ethics practitioners overall.”

Ethisphere worked with Mr. Yuspeh to enlist the expertise of leading ethics and compliance practitioners from within the healthcare industry to share their thoughts on the state of the industry. These experts, representing the pharmaceutical, hospital, medical device and legal sectors, include:

• Holley Thames Lutz, Partner at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, LLP
• Dan Roach, Vice President for Compliance & Audit at Catholic Healthcare West
• Kathleen Erickson DiGiorno, Vice President, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, Medtronic
• Megan Barry, Ethics and Compliance Officer, Premier, Inc.
• Lori Queisser, former chief compliance officer for Schering-Plough and Eli Lilly

Each contributed a unique perspective into the ethics of their particular field, and detail what leading organizations are accomplishing in the ethics, CSR and legal compliance spaces.

“As the healthcare industry faces unique and rapidly evolving legal challenges, it’s critically important that industry leaders make an open and steadfast commitment to ethical business practices,” Mr. Yuspeh said. “We’re all in a position where learning from and sharing with one another will benefit our own efforts and the state of the industry overall. I’m delighted to have such seasoned and leading experts contribute to this special issue of Ethisphere, and I hope that others in our position and industry may benefit from our experiences.”

The Healthcare Issue also features insight from Bill George, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School and former chairman and CEO of Medtronic. He is the author of four best-selling books, most recently, “7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis.”

In addition to healthcare ethics, this edition of Ethisphere Magazine features the 2010 World’s Most Ethical Companies Ranking. The annual World’s Most Ethical Company list recognizes 100 global companies that lead the way in promoting ethical business standards.

For more information on the Healthcare Issue, the World’s Most Ethical Companies or to subscribe to Ethisphere Magazine, please visit www.ethisphere.com.

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About Ethisphere Institute
The research-based Ethisphere Institute is a leading international think-tank dedicated to the creation, advancement and sharing of best practices in business ethics, corporate social responsibility, anti-corruption and sustainability. The Institute’s associated membership groups, the Ethisphere Council and Business Ethics Leadership Alliance, are forums for business ethics that includes over 200 leading corporations, universities and institutions. These groups are dedicated to the development and advancement of members through increased efficiency, innovation, tools, mentoring, advice, and unique career opportunities. Ethisphere Magazine, which publishes the globally recognized World’s Most Ethical Companies Ranking™, is the quarterly publication of the Institute. Ethisphere provides the only third-party verifications of compliance programs and ethical cultures, Ethics Inside Certification® and Compliance Leader Verification. More information on the Ethisphere Institute, including ranking projects and membership, can be found at http://www.ethisphere.com.

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