Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A Pagination First page First Previous page ‹ … Page 3 Current page 4 Page 5 … Next page › Last page Last Challenging Indicators for the Federal Reserve Current Rate Environment Healthcare transactions continue to enter the markets, but still at a relatively slow pace. The experience continues to be generally strong investor support and... Blog Positioning the Balance Sheet Current Rate Environment Fixed income markets have rallied based on improving funds flows following indicators suggesting the Fed is gaining ground in the battle against inflation... Blog Moving Into and Through 2023 Current Rate Environment December’s 6.5% CPI print offered good news on the inflation front; but 6.5% is still high, so the job isn’t done and the blunt instrument of Fed tightening in... Blog Financial “Twindemic” and the Impact on Ratings Although hospitals have experienced difficult operating periods and volatile stock markets in the past, the simultaneous impact of these two forces in 2022 was a first in not-for-profit healthcare, creating a financial “twindemic” that drove many of the downgrades. Blog Our Inflation Round Trip Tuesday’s 7.1% CPI print was an improvement from October’s 7.7% and well off the 9.1% peak (so far) posted in June. 7.1% is not price stability and there remains a large gap to the Fed... Blog Inflation May Be Stabilizing, but a Transformative Period for Healthcare Has Only Just Begun Healthcare issuance remains light, running at over 30% below 2021 YTD levels. No channel of external healthcare capital formation has been active, but there have been interesting... Blog Ratings Tolerance During Financial Turbulence In recent months, hospitals of all sizes and ratings are reporting tremendous financial turbulence, primarily due to externalities such as the nursing shortage and the need for expensive contract labor. Blog An End to the Fed’s Interventionist Role? Thursday’s CPI 7.7% report hinted at some slowing of inflationary pressures. Stock and bond markets had a huge party celebrating the release but none of it matters until Fed Chairman... Blog The Risk-Optionality Continuum Year-to-date healthcare debt issuance is down almost 30% versus the same period in 2021 and currently stands at only 43% of full year 2020 issuance and 55% of full year 2021. Certainly... Blog Does Your Approach to Charity Care Live Up to Your Own Standards? Not-for-profit hospitals have recently been spotlighted for practices related to their level of and approach to charity care. Blog What Social Health Can Learn from the Quality Journey As much as 80% of health outcomes are determined by circumstances and factors outside of clinical care. Blog A Strengthening Dollar's Balance Sheet Impacts Not-for-profit healthcare issuance remains light across public and private funding channels. Uncertainty about the depth and breadth of capital access options persists but the main... Blog Pagination First page First Previous page ‹ … Page 3 Current page 4 Page 5 … Next page › Last page Last
Challenging Indicators for the Federal Reserve Current Rate Environment Healthcare transactions continue to enter the markets, but still at a relatively slow pace. The experience continues to be generally strong investor support and... Blog
Positioning the Balance Sheet Current Rate Environment Fixed income markets have rallied based on improving funds flows following indicators suggesting the Fed is gaining ground in the battle against inflation... Blog
Moving Into and Through 2023 Current Rate Environment December’s 6.5% CPI print offered good news on the inflation front; but 6.5% is still high, so the job isn’t done and the blunt instrument of Fed tightening in... Blog
Financial “Twindemic” and the Impact on Ratings Although hospitals have experienced difficult operating periods and volatile stock markets in the past, the simultaneous impact of these two forces in 2022 was a first in not-for-profit healthcare, creating a financial “twindemic” that drove many of the downgrades. Blog
Our Inflation Round Trip Tuesday’s 7.1% CPI print was an improvement from October’s 7.7% and well off the 9.1% peak (so far) posted in June. 7.1% is not price stability and there remains a large gap to the Fed... Blog
Inflation May Be Stabilizing, but a Transformative Period for Healthcare Has Only Just Begun Healthcare issuance remains light, running at over 30% below 2021 YTD levels. No channel of external healthcare capital formation has been active, but there have been interesting... Blog
Ratings Tolerance During Financial Turbulence In recent months, hospitals of all sizes and ratings are reporting tremendous financial turbulence, primarily due to externalities such as the nursing shortage and the need for expensive contract labor. Blog
An End to the Fed’s Interventionist Role? Thursday’s CPI 7.7% report hinted at some slowing of inflationary pressures. Stock and bond markets had a huge party celebrating the release but none of it matters until Fed Chairman... Blog
The Risk-Optionality Continuum Year-to-date healthcare debt issuance is down almost 30% versus the same period in 2021 and currently stands at only 43% of full year 2020 issuance and 55% of full year 2021. Certainly... Blog
Does Your Approach to Charity Care Live Up to Your Own Standards? Not-for-profit hospitals have recently been spotlighted for practices related to their level of and approach to charity care. Blog
What Social Health Can Learn from the Quality Journey As much as 80% of health outcomes are determined by circumstances and factors outside of clinical care. Blog
A Strengthening Dollar's Balance Sheet Impacts Not-for-profit healthcare issuance remains light across public and private funding channels. Uncertainty about the depth and breadth of capital access options persists but the main... Blog