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A nationwide shortage of healthcare workers made worse by the pandemic, and hospital and health systems’ increased reliance on contract labor, is driving expenses upward and contributing to steep declines in profit margins, according to a Special Workforce Edition of Kaufman Hall’s National Hospital Flash Report.

With plans for an administrative restructuring finalized, a university completes its roadmap to financial sustainability. Some early successes help boost momentum.

Well-resourced competitors to hospitals and health systems are aggressively using consumer-focused strategies to gain a foothold in the industry. Providers that integrate consumer...

Listen to rating agency experts discuss the pandemic’s continued financial impact on hospitals including labor challenges and volume trends.

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. I didn’t need a calendar reminder to start me thinking about this disease. At this moment, I am recovering from ostomy surgery, the...

With the need for further cost savings to ensure long-term financial viability, university leadership makes difficult decisions on underperforming programs.

A googol is a 1 followed by 100 zeros. There are bigger numbers, and words for those bigger numbers, but a googol is as large a number as I am likely to need. In fact, the number of...

SVP, Lisa Goldstein, shares what she learned about hospitals, healthcare, and the not-for-profit mission from her breast cancer journey.

For more than a decade, hospitals, payers, and other healthcare stakeholders have experimented with moving healthcare payment from fee-for-service, volume-based contracts to arrangements that reward providers for the value of the care they provide.

A university explores partnerships as a middle ground between its current state and a cost reduction effort that would eliminate programs and services.

Physician activity came roaring back in the second and third quarters of this year, with physician productivity and revenues surpassing both 2019 and 2020 performance.

Given the number and magnitude of external pressures in healthcare, the need for robust, long-range financial planning is more critical than ever. In addition, boards are increasingly...