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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.

In an environment unlike anything any of us have experienced, regaining financial equilibrium will require a comprehensive view of our organizations and environments and an openness to an outcome in which we do things very differently.

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.

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...

Hospital finances broke even in April amid a continuing trend of high expenses and the unwinding of the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement of the COVID-19 public health emergency

Our latest report uncovers emerging workforce spending trends.

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.

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...

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

Hospital finances improved slightly in March as hospital leaders navigate high expenses and economic pressures. While margins continue to stabilize, they remain below pre-pandemic levels—leaving hospitals in a vulnerable position should a recession or new public health emergency arise.

Physician and provider productivity is on the rise as patients continue to reengage and seek out care that was put off during the pandemic.