Coronavirus Updates: Healthcare

The American Hospital Association, led by Rick Pollack, has been at the forefront of the COVID-19 battle. Read more of our interview with Rick, President and CEO of AHA.

In a new interview, John Vozenilek, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Innovation & Digital Health at OSF HealthCare in Peoria, Illinois, explores the system’s innovative at-home COVID-19 initiative. Read more!

Claude Deschamps, MD, President and CEO of the University of Vermont Health Network Medical Group, explores his organization’s efforts to prepare for the surge and beyond, including the tough issues of redeploying staff and adjusting compensation. Deschamps also provides insight into his approach to leadership in difficult times.

UW Medicine in Seattle saw some of the nation’s first coronavirus cases. We asked Ruth Mahan, Chief Business Officer with UW Medicine, to share her insights. Read more!

As the largest not-for-profit health system in the Seattle area, Swedish Health Services was an early responder to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. Read our interview with Chief Quality Officer Chris Dale, M.D., and Interim CFO Stan Moser.

When we first spoke with President and CEO John Murphy, MD, Nuvance Health system was just beginning to see an increase in patients with COVID-19. Twelve days later, we talked with Murphy again to understand what has changed and find out how his organization is preparing to fight a predicted surge in cases in early April.

Martin Arrick recently retired from his position as a managing director at S&P Global Ratings and leader of its not-for-profit healthcare group provides a rating agency perspective on the COVID-19 crisis.

Health system leaders are facing a series of urgent issues in as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, including redeploying staff, managing employee morale in a time of worry, and ensuring...

Ken Kaufman, Managing Director, Chair, and co-founder of Kaufman Hall, explains how the COVID-19 pandemic could affect hospital finances & strategy, & what we are learning about changes necessary in the healthcare system as a whole.

We spoke with Kaufman Hall’s supply chain expert Gregg Lambert about hospitals’ ability to access personal protective equipment, ventilators, and blood during the crisis.

The coronavirus pandemic is placing enormous staffing pressure on hospitals and health systems, who must manage a surge in patients while ensuring their staffs are healthy and rested for the next shift. Learn the strategies hospitals can use to prepare their organizations for the surge.

As leader of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, Joe Fifer has been keeping close tabs on how the COVID-19 pandemic has been affecting the financial health of hospitals and...

As hospitals work to maintain an adequate supply chain in unprecedented times, many leaders are tapping unexpected sources and pursuing creative solutions to prepare for the surge. Read more in an interview with a CFO of a Southeastern hospital.

The NY metro area is the epicenter of one of the most intense COVID-19 outbreaks in the country. We asked Scott D. Hayworth, MD, President and CEO of CareMount Medical, to share his perspectives. Read more!

Dr. Omar Lateef, DO, President and CEO of Rush University Medical Center, shared his thoughts on why it was essential to act early and how his organization has been affected.

The coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic chaos has significantly heightened the risk & uncertainty facing all healthcare organizations. Read our interview with Jason Sussman for more information.

David Meltzer, MD, PhD, is Chief of the Section of Hospital Medicine at University of Chicago Medicine. Read our interview with him for his thoughts on the COVID-19 pandemic.

Read our interview with John Murphy, MD, President and CEO of Nuvance Health, for his overservation on the COVID-19 pandemic and what it means for health systems.

Kaufman Hall’s Planning team has created this monitoring and planning guide to help you keep track of the key impact factors, market effects, and emerging opportunities for telehealth.

Cost-management tactics will differ depending on whether organizations are preparing for the COVID-19 surge, in the throes of the surge, or entering recovery mode. Learn more in our guide.

Payers and providers alike are experiencing a host of COVID-19 related factors. Check out our guide on how to navigate during these uncertain times.

We've created a monitoring and planning guide to help you keep track of the many physician issues that might arise in the near and long term, including physician compensation, physician support staff, and more.

Our Treasury & Capital Markets team has created this monitoring and planning guide to help you keep track of the issues that arise in the near and long term across key Treasury functions. Download now!

Hospitals and health systems now face gale-force headwinds in the generation of operating cash flow from a combination of critical imbalances. Read more on securing additional bank liquidity in these times.

Hospitals and health systems on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis are in the midst of an intense battle to meet mounting, unprecedented demands on their resources and capacity. Read more on how to find additional liquidity sources.

SIFMA Market Stress Creates Significant Pressure for All Parties Liquidity pressures in all short-term markets have made their way into the U.S. Municipal short-term money market. The...

COVID-19 has produced tremendous dislocation across every component of the not-for-profit healthcare business model. Read more on strategic resource allocation.

Capital markets continue to struggle, creating new pressure points for healthcare clients. The central theme of the moment is fear. Read more about what this pandemic means for global capital markets.

The outbreak and spread of the new coronavirus has quickly reintroduced volatility to the capital markets. Learn more on how hospitals should be responding.

Our Treasury & Capital Markets team has created this monitoring and planning guide to help you keep track of the issues that arise in the near and long term across key Treasury functions. Download now!

Soon, hospitals will likely need to update their ratings, either because rating agencies continue to maintain their surveillance requirements, or because clients will need to access the capital markets for one of several reasons. Read more.

Martin Arrick recently retired from his position as a managing director at S&P Global Ratings and leader of its not-for-profit healthcare group provides a rating agency perspective on the COVID-19 crisis.

The next possible result of COVID-19’s financial hit is violation of debt covenants. Avoiding this destabilizing possibility is a top priority for America’s hospitals. Read more.

Watch our discussion with leading law firms addressing the covenant management challenges confronting the non-profit healthcare sector during the COVID-19 crisis, including: Mary G...

COVID-19 is creating material and ongoing financial dislocations that will significantly reduce operating cash flow for some period of time. The early results make it clear that these disruptions pose a risk to compliance with ongoing financial covenants contained in various debt documents, especially cash-flow-based tests.