Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A Revisiting the Importance of Financial Planning Since the late 1980s, financial planning has been a core focus of Kaufman Hall’s work. A recent leadership change emphasized the importance of financial planning to the for-profit corporate world. It should be given similar priority in the not-for-profit hospital universe. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman 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 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 When Financial Performance Matters We have entered a financial moment when paying attention to the sunk cost fallacy will be central to maintaining, or recovering, the financial, clinical, and mission strength of America’s hospitals. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman 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 Taking a No-Regrets Approach to Health Inequity Healthcare organizations have faced a set of historically intractable problems, some of which have become far more apparent and intense in the 20 months since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, including dealing with the fallout of a public health system. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman The Workforce Challenge Is a Segmentation Challenge In my conversations with senior executives at healthcare organizations around the country, I find that leaders have three critical topics on their minds: workforce, workforce, and... Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Revisiting the Importance of Financial Planning Since the late 1980s, financial planning has been a core focus of Kaufman Hall’s work. A recent leadership change emphasized the importance of financial planning to the for-profit corporate world. It should be given similar priority in the not-for-profit hospital universe. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
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
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
When Financial Performance Matters We have entered a financial moment when paying attention to the sunk cost fallacy will be central to maintaining, or recovering, the financial, clinical, and mission strength of America’s hospitals. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
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
Taking a No-Regrets Approach to Health Inequity Healthcare organizations have faced a set of historically intractable problems, some of which have become far more apparent and intense in the 20 months since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, including dealing with the fallout of a public health system. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
The Workforce Challenge Is a Segmentation Challenge In my conversations with senior executives at healthcare organizations around the country, I find that leaders have three critical topics on their minds: workforce, workforce, and... Thoughts from Ken Kaufman