Coronavirus Updates: Healthcare

On this episode Michael Peregrine and Kevin Kaufman discuss a number of important post-pandemic developments for the board to consider.

Volatility driven by COVID-19 rocked physician practices throughout 2020, causing declines across key performance metrics compared to pre-pandemic levels, according to the latest issue...

For many hospitals and health systems around the country, COVID-19 threatens to create long-term negative changes to volumes, revenues, and margins on top of the pressures that weighed on hospitals even before the pandemic.

One year ago, Q1 2020 was closing with an emerging awareness of the pandemic that was about occur. The quarter ended with a relatively high number of announced transactions, but with very few large transactions, leaving average seller size by revenue at just $172 million for the quarter.

As the second year of the pandemic continues, health systems are preparing for an uncertain future trajectory while continuing to care for patients impacted by COVID-19.

One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, health system leaders continue to confront an extremely volatile operating environment.

For America’s hospitals, positive margins create the ability to invest in new facilities, treatments, and technologies to better care for patients, and to build reserves to be ready for a future made highly uncertain due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

February 2021 was another challenging month for U.S. hospitals and health systems, as margins were affected by continued low outpatient volumes combined with declining inpatient volumes following January’s record-high COVID-19 hospitalizations.

In the roughly 12 months since the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, America’s hospitals have borne a huge amount of the pressure and accountability for managing the effects of an unknown and unpredictable virus, and more recently for the complex process of disseminating vaccines.

In business, resiliency measures a company’s ability to weather each of the three stages of dislocation: the shock of initial crisis, the fight for stabilization, and the transition to normalization. For not-for-profit hospitals and health systems, the COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented assault on the core business model.

In 2020, COVID-19 undermined our nation’s health and severely tested our hospitals and health systems. At the same time that a series of spikes in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations...

In this recording we hear from Bea Grause, RN, JD, President of the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS). She shares the challenges New York hospitals and health systems face in the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and emerging strategies for thriving amid ongoing volatility.

Hospitals and health systems had a difficult start to 2021 as declining volumes, falling outpatient revenues, and rising expenses contributed to significant January margin declines. The ongoing effects of COVID-19 propelled January’s poor results, but it was a mixed month in terms of COVID-19 metrics.

In this issue of the Kaufman Hall Report, Kaufman Hall Chair Ken Kaufman discusses insights from the circumstances that enabled Becky Hammon to become the first woman to act as head coach during an NBA regular-season game, and the promotion of Kim Ng as General Manager for the Miami Marlins.

A Special Edition Governing Health Series This episode - the first in our new Governing Health special edition series - features Ken Kaufman, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Kaufman...

Healthcare boards are entering 2021 with an extraordinarily full agenda, challenged by COVID-19 response and recovery, heightened focus on social justice and corporate social...

In this recording, David Perlstein, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer at SBH Health System in the Bronx, New York City, will discuss his organization’s ongoing response to the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, and offer his perspectives on the challenging outlook currently facing hospitals and health systems.

The number of new cases and related hospitalizations have begun falling across the U.S., though public health experts continue to express concern about a number of fast-circulating variants.

Since April 2020, we have engaged in a series of webinars with representatives of S&P Global Ratings, Moody’s Investors Service, and Fitch Ratings that assess the financial state of...

Never before have organizations been required to think more rapidly and radically than in the volatile environment of COVID-19, when existing business models are being decimated daily, and organizations need to hit a new target that is hazy at best.

2020 was off to a strong start in hospital merger and acquisition activity, with the number of announced transactions in Q1 among the highest seen in the past four years. Then the COVID...

Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic will be the immediate concern of the incoming Biden administration. But with vaccinations now underway, other issues likely will gain attention during President-elect Biden’s first year in office. Read more.

Healthcare organizations have rotated toward a transactional operating platform because that platform is highly correlated to efficient operations, consistent levels of clinical care, and excellent financial performance.

A grim winter and hope for the spring: hospitals confront a COVID balancing act As of this writing, more than 96,000 Americans are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, the highest...

After several years of research and development, the automated teller machine made its first appearance in 1967 at a branch of London’s Barclay’s Bank. Two years later, the first U.S. ATM was installed at a branch of the Chemical Bank on Long Island.

Many of us have questions surrounding possible consolidation of the provider space post-COVID. Read the Thoughts from Ken for details about what we could expect.

This week, the number of U.S. patients hospitalized with COVID-19 surged beyond 73,000, the highest level recorded since the start of the pandemic. Read more.

The Fall 2020 Kaufman Hall Report features highlights from Kaufman Hall’s recent Healthcare Leadership Conference. Download the report now!

In a pandemic of uncertain intensity and duration, what is now the appropriate direction for a complex healthcare organization? Read more.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic fallout has accelerated consumer expectations for receiving convenience, service, and value for their healthcare. At the same time...