The trade magazine Modern Healthcareon Monday named outgoing Kansas University Hospital President and CEO Irene Cumming to its 2007 list of the “25 Most Powerful Women in Healthcare.”Other notables on the list- compiled every two years by the magazine- include Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Julie Gerberding, the first woman to direct the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The full article is available only to registered users of the site, but the portion about Cumming reads as follows:”Cumming, 59, last month was appointed president and CEO of University HealthSystem Consortium, Oak Brook, Ill., an alliance of 97 academic medical centers with 153 affiliate hospitals. Before this she spent 11 years as the president and CEO of the University of Kansas Hospital. When she started there, the hospital was a ward of the state. A decade later, operating revenue was $540 million, up 185% since fiscal 1998.”Cumming’s departure comes amid tense negotiations about the future relationship between KU Hospital and KU’s School of Medicine, which supplies the hospital with faculty and medical students but wants to form a new relationship with Saint Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Mo. -contributed by Eric Weslander