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October was a challenging month for hospitals and health systems nationwide amid ongoing instability spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic. Margins and volumes fell, revenues flattened, and...

The nation’s hospitals continue to face an uncertain operating environment, with margins fluctuating from month to month. Although September 2020 margins were above September 2019...

For the past 3 years, we've surveyed hospitals and health systems on their performance improvement and cost transformation efforts. This year, these efforts met an historic challenge with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Margins have consistently performed below 2019 levels as a result. Even so, the last few months had shown some signs of potential progress, with margins increasing incrementally month-over-month.

Corporate resiliency is the ability to withstand adverse changes to the core business model. A critical response factor is the capacity to adapt—to manage the organization to a...

Intense cost pressures have driven partnerships across healthcare. Yet few ultimately achieve intended cost synergies. Learn how healthcare leaders should react.

The COVID-19 pandemic continued to drive significant volatility in operating performance for hospitals across the country in July, suppressing volumes and revenues compared to the same period last year.

Learn how effective program management strategies can to help your organization navigate current industry turbulence brought about by the COVID-19 crisis.

Even when including the CARES Act relief, the year-to-date median hospital operating margin is still 200-300bps below historical and sustainable performance.

Identify effective performance improvement strategies to help your organization optimize non-labor and labor functions, including reconfiguring administrative and clinical workforce...

Few organizations can maintain themselves for an extended period when total expenses are greater than total revenues. Read more in our report.

Learn how rolling forecasting can help organizations navigate the impacts of COVID-19 with efficient and timely updates that enable healthcare leaders to regularly assess changes, and...