California Nurses/NNOC Director Rose Ann DeMoro Named To Healthcare's 100 Most Powerful List - Again

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Article Date: 28 Aug 2008 - 1:00 PDT

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It has become a tradition. For the seventh consecutive year, a nationally known healthcare business publication has named California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro as one of the "100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare."

In the list by Modern Healthcare, a Chicago-based nationally recognized healthcare industry news weekly magazine, DeMoro ranks 45th, the only leader of a nurses' organization, and the highest rating for any labor/professional organization on a list dominated by corporate executives and elected officials.

Hundreds of thousands of votes were cast in determining the winners, said Modern Healthcare.

DeMoro has been among Modern Healthcare's Top 100 for every one of the seven years the 100 Most Powerful list has been compiled, one of only 17 to achieve that distinction. She is one of only three women, and the only RN organization or labor leader to appear on the list every year.

"We are enormously proud to see Rose Ann so prominently recognized year after year after year," said CNA/NNOC Co-President Malinda Markowitz, RN. "It's a tribute to her vision, her principles, and her values that have inspired us all and are a perfect match for the best in our organization and the model of patient advocacy that defines registered nurses and CNA/NNOC."

The recognition coincides with multiple awards for DeMoro the past few years. She was also:

- Selected by MSN as one of the "Ten Influential Women of 2006"

- Named one of "America's Best & Brightest" by Esquire magazine

- Dubbed "The Most Influential Woman You've Never Heard Of" by More magazine in September, 2006

- Honored as "2006 Consumer Advocate of the Year" by the Consumer Attorneys of California

- Presented with the "Philip Burton Public Service Award of 2006" by Warren Beatty on behalf of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights

- Selected among Modern Healthcare's "Top 25 Women in Healthcare" both years that poll has been conducted.

- Named a National Vice President and Executive Board member of the AFL-CIO

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