Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 … Next page › Last page Last A Different Way of Thinking About Hospital Closures The many forces driving some hospitals to financial distress make it impossible to maintain the status quo. Leaders can move beyond a binary close-or-don’t-close decision to reconsider what it means to deliver healthcare in communities that struggle to support a hospital. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Embracing Financial Planning After a Pause: Key Considerations In recent years, many healthcare organizations have invested less effort in long-range financial planning to confront more immediate challenges to their margins and balance sheets. Article Payer Trends Health Systems Should Watch Closely in 2024 Health system leaders focused on the day-to-day needs of their organization can sometimes lose sight of key developments in other sectors of healthcare. But in an interconnected healthcare ecosystem, understanding the trendlines their payer counterparts are facing is an essential task. Article Comments on Current Management Issues in the Healthcare C-Suite: “Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast” But Probably Not Right Now Hospital leadership faces an undeniably hard challenge: regaining financial stability, finding a relevant post-Covid competitive vision, and energizing teams with a renewed sense of purpose. But fighting back is the hospital job of the moment. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Comments on Current Management Issues in the Healthcare C-Suite: Hospital Strategy and Planning in Times of Financial Challenge During times of financial challenge, hospitals tend to aggressively cut back on both planning and the execution of overall strategy. But is this the right road for hospitals to take at this time? Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Rating Agency Summer 2023 Update Our summer Rating Agency Webinar covers several important topics, including year-to-date rating activity through the first half of 2023 and what it tells us about the state of the industry. Webinar Rethinking Healthcare Economics: The Power of Advanced Practice Providers with Matthew Bates On a new episode of The Healthcare Plus Podcast, host Quint Studer and Matthew Bates discuss the financial pressures facing healthcare industry leaders today and discuss strategic solutions to improve create alignment and improve margins. Podcast Healthcare’s Post-Growth Reset echnology and retail-focused companies from Amazon to Oscar Health to CVS/Aetna, just to name a few, have taken ambitious steps into healthcare with offerings for everything from primary care to ambulatory clinics to new, consumer-focused insurance plans. Article The Value of the Board Retreat Those of you who read my blog regularly know that my focus tends toward either hospital operations or healthcare policy. In my latest blog, I want to change the pace and talk about the value of a well-planned and well-executed Board retreat. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Value-based care plans, and hospital finances Fierce Healthcare's Dave Muoio chats with Lisa Goldstein, senior vice president at the consulting firm Kaufman Hall, about what hospital leaders will need to focus on in the new year. Podcast The “Productization” of Healthcare Is Not Kind to Hospitals Explore how hospitals and health systems are faring in an increasingly productized healthcare marketplace. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Pandemic Redux? When the nation is unprepared for catastrophic public health emergencies, the consequences are as real as they can get. As we saw with COVID-19, many people died while the country’s public health apparatus struggled to catch up, and America’s hospitals, jumped into the breach. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 … Next page › Last page Last
A Different Way of Thinking About Hospital Closures The many forces driving some hospitals to financial distress make it impossible to maintain the status quo. Leaders can move beyond a binary close-or-don’t-close decision to reconsider what it means to deliver healthcare in communities that struggle to support a hospital. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Embracing Financial Planning After a Pause: Key Considerations In recent years, many healthcare organizations have invested less effort in long-range financial planning to confront more immediate challenges to their margins and balance sheets. Article
Payer Trends Health Systems Should Watch Closely in 2024 Health system leaders focused on the day-to-day needs of their organization can sometimes lose sight of key developments in other sectors of healthcare. But in an interconnected healthcare ecosystem, understanding the trendlines their payer counterparts are facing is an essential task. Article
Comments on Current Management Issues in the Healthcare C-Suite: “Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast” But Probably Not Right Now Hospital leadership faces an undeniably hard challenge: regaining financial stability, finding a relevant post-Covid competitive vision, and energizing teams with a renewed sense of purpose. But fighting back is the hospital job of the moment. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Comments on Current Management Issues in the Healthcare C-Suite: Hospital Strategy and Planning in Times of Financial Challenge During times of financial challenge, hospitals tend to aggressively cut back on both planning and the execution of overall strategy. But is this the right road for hospitals to take at this time? Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Rating Agency Summer 2023 Update Our summer Rating Agency Webinar covers several important topics, including year-to-date rating activity through the first half of 2023 and what it tells us about the state of the industry. Webinar
Rethinking Healthcare Economics: The Power of Advanced Practice Providers with Matthew Bates On a new episode of The Healthcare Plus Podcast, host Quint Studer and Matthew Bates discuss the financial pressures facing healthcare industry leaders today and discuss strategic solutions to improve create alignment and improve margins. Podcast
Healthcare’s Post-Growth Reset echnology and retail-focused companies from Amazon to Oscar Health to CVS/Aetna, just to name a few, have taken ambitious steps into healthcare with offerings for everything from primary care to ambulatory clinics to new, consumer-focused insurance plans. Article
The Value of the Board Retreat Those of you who read my blog regularly know that my focus tends toward either hospital operations or healthcare policy. In my latest blog, I want to change the pace and talk about the value of a well-planned and well-executed Board retreat. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Value-based care plans, and hospital finances Fierce Healthcare's Dave Muoio chats with Lisa Goldstein, senior vice president at the consulting firm Kaufman Hall, about what hospital leaders will need to focus on in the new year. Podcast
The “Productization” of Healthcare Is Not Kind to Hospitals Explore how hospitals and health systems are faring in an increasingly productized healthcare marketplace. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Pandemic Redux? When the nation is unprepared for catastrophic public health emergencies, the consequences are as real as they can get. As we saw with COVID-19, many people died while the country’s public health apparatus struggled to catch up, and America’s hospitals, jumped into the breach. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman