Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A The Importance of No-Regrets Strategies With hundreds of competing priorities, hospital executive teams must focus on something they that they know they can spend time on and get real results from. An intense focus on improving length of stay gives hospitals a significant advantage in financial performance. Blog Comments on Current Management Issues in the Healthcare C-Suite: Management of Labor in Trying Financial Circumstances C-suites across America are moving to stronger measures to assure the financial survivability and competitiveness of their organizations. Data and analysis suggest that reductions in force are among the measures being taken today. Blog 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. 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 The Sobering State of Hospital Finances The American Hospital Association has released a report that we prepared for them on the state of hospital finances—and the results are sobering. We are projecting 2022 to be the worst... Blog Viewing Workforce Needs with a Beginner’s Mind “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s, there are few.” This famous observation by Shunryu Suzuki, which posits the importance of intellectual... Blog 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
The Importance of No-Regrets Strategies With hundreds of competing priorities, hospital executive teams must focus on something they that they know they can spend time on and get real results from. An intense focus on improving length of stay gives hospitals a significant advantage in financial performance. Blog
Comments on Current Management Issues in the Healthcare C-Suite: Management of Labor in Trying Financial Circumstances C-suites across America are moving to stronger measures to assure the financial survivability and competitiveness of their organizations. Data and analysis suggest that reductions in force are among the measures being taken today. Blog
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. 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
The Sobering State of Hospital Finances The American Hospital Association has released a report that we prepared for them on the state of hospital finances—and the results are sobering. We are projecting 2022 to be the worst... Blog
Viewing Workforce Needs with a Beginner’s Mind “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s, there are few.” This famous observation by Shunryu Suzuki, which posits the importance of intellectual... Blog
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
