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Current Rate Environment December’s 6.5% CPI print offered good news on the inflation front; but 6.5% is still high, so the job isn’t done and the blunt instrument of Fed tightening in...

Although hospitals have experienced difficult operating periods and volatile stock markets in the past, the simultaneous impact of these two forces in 2022 was a first in not-for-profit healthcare, creating a financial “twindemic” that drove many of the downgrades.

Tuesday’s 7.1% CPI print was an improvement from October’s 7.7% and well off the 9.1% peak (so far) posted in June. 7.1% is not price stability and there remains a large gap to the Fed...

Partnerships between health systems and higher ed institutions can address the critical and growing need for health professionals and help both parties respond to evolving needs for new skills and capabilities, together building a broader and better health professional workforce.

Healthcare issuance remains light, running at over 30% below 2021 YTD levels. No channel of external healthcare capital formation has been active, but there have been interesting...

In recent months, hospitals of all sizes and ratings are reporting tremendous financial turbulence, primarily due to externalities such as the nursing shortage and the need for expensive contract labor.

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.

Liquidity optimization offers colleges and universities a significant financial opportunity. It also is an imperative to meet the mounting financial challenges and risks that higher education faces today.

Thursday’s CPI 7.7% report hinted at some slowing of inflationary pressures. Stock and bond markets had a huge party celebrating the release but none of it matters until Fed Chairman...

Year-to-date healthcare debt issuance is down almost 30% versus the same period in 2021 and currently stands at only 43% of full year 2020 issuance and 55% of full year 2021. Certainly...

Not-for-profit hospitals have recently been spotlighted for practices related to their level of and approach to charity care.

Not-for-profit healthcare issuance remains light across public and private funding channels. Uncertainty about the depth and breadth of capital access options persists but the main...