Ralph de la Torre  Health care's new maverick  August 2, 2012:
5:00 AM ET  Steward Health Care System's Ralph de la Torre is
building a model for the future.  By Geoff Colvin, senior
editor-at-large  Steward Health Care System's Ralph de la Torre
Steward Health Care System's Ralph de la Torre  FORTUNE --
What's the future of American health care? Dr. Ralph de la
Torre, CEO of Steward Health Care System, may represent the
answer. Steward, owned by the private equity firm Cerberus
Capital Management, is a growing Massachusetts-based group of
community hospitals, and industry analysts say de la Torre is
one of the most dynamic and influential executives in the
business. He's consolidating hospitals, finding efficiencies,
investing big in infotech, and creating a new model that he says
won't change much regardless of how Obamacare's future plays
out. De la Torre, 46, is the son of Cuban immigrants and became
the chief of cardiac surgery at Harvard's Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center at age 38, then gave up pr