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Hospital executives have given the physician employment strategy considerable thought. Here are four observations from healthcare leaders who are rethinking the physician employment model.

The physician employment model is clearly broken and in need of a near-term fix. The critical question for health system leaders is how to reconsider physician employment within the hospital operating plan.

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.

Lately, every CEO I talk with tells me how hard it is to run a healthcare organization in 2023. These are people with long experience, people who over time have pushed the right buttons and pulled the right levers to make their organizations successful and to give their communities the care they need.

The possibility of breached covenants is a symptom of deeper problems that require an all-hands-on-deck approach to get back on a sustainable path.

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

In February, U.S. inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index grew 7.9% year-over-year, the highest increase in four decades. The factors influencing the current inflationary...

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

As we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, we face a changed reality. Expenses—particularly labor expenses—have reset at a higher level. Inflation is rising at rates not seen since the...

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.

Almost everything that not-for-profit hospital ratings analysts evaluate can be measured, quantified, and databased. Except for one: governance.