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The challenges facing health system leaders today are so diverse, interconnected, and relentless that an incremental management approach won’t work. The best response is grounded in simultaneous and tightly integrated efforts across multiple areas of focus.

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.

The maintenance of financial reserves is critical in rating committee during difficult times. Management teams that have outlined a credible plan to create financial durability and have built liquidity are best positioned for today’s harsh environment.

Current Funding Environment IU Health (Aa2/AA/AA), AdventHealth (Aa2/NR/AA), Banner Health (NR/AA-/AA-), and Arkansas Children’s Hospital (A1/AA-/NR) came to market this week with...

Current Funding Environment The healthcare financings that came in the past couple of weeks generally did well. Maturities seemed to do better than put bonds, and it remains important...

Nurse leaders must understand their fiduciary role as executives with respect to their organization’s capital needs. In this article and accompanying podcast, healthcare expert Lisa Goldstein explains the issues related to hospital debt, and specifically, to hospital bonds.

There has always been a connection between performance improvement initiatives and the balance sheet. By reducing operating costs, boosting productivity, and enhancing revenues, a...

Understanding what your resources are, the role your decisions place them in, and then positioning them in a role-responsive way is the most important management initiative for every balance-sheet-centric organization.

With limited sources of funding, hospitals and health systems rely on financial reserves to maintain their financial stability and support their growth. These reserves ensure that hospitals and health systems can continue to serve their communities through good times and bad.

Current Funding Environment Wednesday’s inflation print showed a March increase of 0.1% versus February and a year-over-year increase of 5.0%, both of which were better than expected...

Current Funding Environment Healthcare debt issuance remains incredibly light, across both public and private channels. There is significant volatility across all fixed income markets...

Our March Rating Agency Webinar cover several important topics, including each agency’s not-for-profit healthcare sector outlook, key drivers and what that means for rating activity in 2023, covenant violations (or near misses) and how they are incorporated into rating decisions, trends in capital spending and an update on ESG.