Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page › Last page Last M&A Quarterly Activity Report: Q1 2024 The 20 transactions announced in Q1 2024 continued a steady climb out of the slowdown in activity experienced during the Covid pandemic, significantly exceeding the number of transactions announced in Q1 of 2021, 2022, and 2023. Research Report 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 Building Skilled Nursing Relationships to Improve Hospital Length of Stay To successfully reduce length of stay, health system management will need to combine performance improvement efforts with efforts to successfully align themselves more closely with skilled nursing providers. Article 2023 Hospital and Health System M&A in Review Financial distress emerged as a key factor in hospital and health system M&A in 2023, with 28% of announced transactions involving a financially distressed partner. This is almost double the percentage of transactions in which financial distress was cited as a factor in 2022. Research Report M&A Quarterly Activity Report: Q3 2023 With 18 announced transactions, Q3 2023 continued the momentum in activity we have seen throughout the year. A high percentage of financially distressed organizations in this quarter’s transactions reflected the impact of challenging operational and financial headwinds. Research Report The Updated Merger Guidelines’ Impact on the Healthcare Sector The DOJ and FTC recently released proposed updated merger guidelines that, if finalized in similar form, will increase the degree of difficulty associated with mergers and acquisitions. Learn more about the legal and strategic implications for healthcare organizations. Article Summer 2023 Kaufman Hall Report: Strategic Alternatives for Health System Outreach Laboratories The latest Kaufman Hall Report includes an inside look at the strategic alternatives for health system outreach laboratories—and key challenges and opportunities for health systems. Research Report Partnerships Go Bold as Organizations Face New Challenges At a transformational moment for not-for-profit healthcare, recent trends in partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions indicate that hospitals and health systems are exploring increasingly bold strategies to meet new challenges. Article Strategic Alternatives for Health System Outreach Laboratories Various industry pressures have accelerated an evolution of laboratory businesses in recent years, with particular impacts on labs owned by health systems. As a result, many systems are... Article How Many Swings Can You Afford to Get a Hit? The environment in which higher education is operating is creating the need for new thinking and strategies. Institutions may need to swing big and hope for a home run. Blog M&A Quarterly Activity Report: Q1 2023 Hospital and Health System Transactions In the final quarter of 2022, we noted an uptick in transaction activity with 17 announced transactions. That activity level was almost matched... Research Report Senior Living at a Crossroads: Organizations Reassess Their Role in an Evolving Industry As the Baby Boom generation completes its transition into senior status—the entire generation is expected to reach retirement age by 2030—operators of senior living facilities will need... Article Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page › Last page Last
M&A Quarterly Activity Report: Q1 2024 The 20 transactions announced in Q1 2024 continued a steady climb out of the slowdown in activity experienced during the Covid pandemic, significantly exceeding the number of transactions announced in Q1 of 2021, 2022, and 2023. Research Report
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
Building Skilled Nursing Relationships to Improve Hospital Length of Stay To successfully reduce length of stay, health system management will need to combine performance improvement efforts with efforts to successfully align themselves more closely with skilled nursing providers. Article
2023 Hospital and Health System M&A in Review Financial distress emerged as a key factor in hospital and health system M&A in 2023, with 28% of announced transactions involving a financially distressed partner. This is almost double the percentage of transactions in which financial distress was cited as a factor in 2022. Research Report
M&A Quarterly Activity Report: Q3 2023 With 18 announced transactions, Q3 2023 continued the momentum in activity we have seen throughout the year. A high percentage of financially distressed organizations in this quarter’s transactions reflected the impact of challenging operational and financial headwinds. Research Report
The Updated Merger Guidelines’ Impact on the Healthcare Sector The DOJ and FTC recently released proposed updated merger guidelines that, if finalized in similar form, will increase the degree of difficulty associated with mergers and acquisitions. Learn more about the legal and strategic implications for healthcare organizations. Article
Summer 2023 Kaufman Hall Report: Strategic Alternatives for Health System Outreach Laboratories The latest Kaufman Hall Report includes an inside look at the strategic alternatives for health system outreach laboratories—and key challenges and opportunities for health systems. Research Report
Partnerships Go Bold as Organizations Face New Challenges At a transformational moment for not-for-profit healthcare, recent trends in partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions indicate that hospitals and health systems are exploring increasingly bold strategies to meet new challenges. Article
Strategic Alternatives for Health System Outreach Laboratories Various industry pressures have accelerated an evolution of laboratory businesses in recent years, with particular impacts on labs owned by health systems. As a result, many systems are... Article
How Many Swings Can You Afford to Get a Hit? The environment in which higher education is operating is creating the need for new thinking and strategies. Institutions may need to swing big and hope for a home run. Blog
M&A Quarterly Activity Report: Q1 2023 Hospital and Health System Transactions In the final quarter of 2022, we noted an uptick in transaction activity with 17 announced transactions. That activity level was almost matched... Research Report
Senior Living at a Crossroads: Organizations Reassess Their Role in an Evolving Industry As the Baby Boom generation completes its transition into senior status—the entire generation is expected to reach retirement age by 2030—operators of senior living facilities will need... Article