Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A Revisiting the Importance of Financial Planning Since the late 1980s, financial planning has been a core focus of Kaufman Hall’s work. A recent leadership change emphasized the importance of financial planning to the for-profit corporate world. It should be given similar priority in the not-for-profit hospital universe. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman The Value of the Board Retreat Those of you who read my blog regularly know that my focus tends toward either hospital operations or healthcare policy. In my latest blog, I want to change the pace and talk about the value of a well-planned and well-executed Board retreat. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman The “Productization” of Healthcare Is Not Kind to Hospitals Explore how hospitals and health systems are faring in an increasingly productized healthcare marketplace. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Pandemic Redux? When the nation is unprepared for catastrophic public health emergencies, the consequences are as real as they can get. As we saw with COVID-19, many people died while the country’s public health apparatus struggled to catch up, and America’s hospitals, jumped into the breach. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman When Financial Performance Matters 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. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman In Defense of Not-for-Profit Healthcare How soon they forget. Throughout 2020 and 2021, the media was full of praise for hospitals and healthcare workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. When the pandemic was new... Thoughts from Ken Kaufman The Sobering State of Hospital Finances The American Hospital Association has released a report that we prepared for them on the state of hospital finances—and the results are sobering. We are projecting 2022 to be the worst... Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Viewing Workforce Needs with a Beginner’s Mind “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s, there are few.” This famous observation by Shunryu Suzuki, which posits the importance of intellectual... Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Revisiting the Importance of Financial Planning Since the late 1980s, financial planning has been a core focus of Kaufman Hall’s work. A recent leadership change emphasized the importance of financial planning to the for-profit corporate world. It should be given similar priority in the not-for-profit hospital universe. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
The Value of the Board Retreat Those of you who read my blog regularly know that my focus tends toward either hospital operations or healthcare policy. In my latest blog, I want to change the pace and talk about the value of a well-planned and well-executed Board retreat. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
The “Productization” of Healthcare Is Not Kind to Hospitals Explore how hospitals and health systems are faring in an increasingly productized healthcare marketplace. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Pandemic Redux? When the nation is unprepared for catastrophic public health emergencies, the consequences are as real as they can get. As we saw with COVID-19, many people died while the country’s public health apparatus struggled to catch up, and America’s hospitals, jumped into the breach. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
When Financial Performance Matters 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. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
In Defense of Not-for-Profit Healthcare How soon they forget. Throughout 2020 and 2021, the media was full of praise for hospitals and healthcare workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. When the pandemic was new... Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
The Sobering State of Hospital Finances The American Hospital Association has released a report that we prepared for them on the state of hospital finances—and the results are sobering. We are projecting 2022 to be the worst... Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Viewing Workforce Needs with a Beginner’s Mind “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s, there are few.” This famous observation by Shunryu Suzuki, which posits the importance of intellectual... Thoughts from Ken Kaufman