Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A Pagination First page First Previous page ‹ … Page 6 Current page 7 Page 8 Next page › Last page Last My Breast Cancer Journey SVP, Lisa Goldstein, shares what she learned about hospitals, healthcare, and the not-for-profit mission from her breast cancer journey. Blog Higher Rates and Capital Structure Management As organizations consider how to respond to rising rates, one option is introducing capital structure risk: using floating rate products, put bonds, or other structures that move debt to a lower cost point on the yield curve in exchange for assuming risk. Blog Can Governance Be Measured? Almost everything that not-for-profit hospital ratings analysts evaluate can be measured, quantified, and databased. Except for one: governance. Blog Driving New Roads with Old Maps Healthcare issuance has been relatively modest over the past several weeks, with a mix of tax-exempt and taxable transactions across the credit curve. Transactions continue to get done... Blog Ratings Matter, But Long-Term Viability Matters More “Will I be downgraded if my organization’s margins decline because I am investing for its future?” This is one of the most common questions that provider organizations ask ratings... Blog COVID Stabilization and Lines of Credit As the COVID crisis moderates, the question for most organizations is whether to maintain lines of credit. The answer requires clarity on the purpose of these facilities today. Blog Why Stories Matter Over the years, I have had many things that I have wanted to tell the executives at not-for-profit hospitals. As a ratings analyst, however, I couldn’t. Now I can. This is the first of... Blog To 2022 and Beyond Happy New Year and high hopes for a healthy, happy, and successful 2022; the one certainty is that it won’t be uneventful. Let’s kick off this year’s discussion with a level-setting... Blog A Long Strange Trip We are heading into the holiday lull, but markets will continue to be buffeted by a host of competing events. Markets careen from one risk to another and key volatility indicators—like... Blog Are Inflationary Pressures Transitory or Structural? The Fed is predicting that inflationary pressures are transitory, but healthcare leaders face the business challenge of major expense inputs that have moved to new levels based on pressures that may have a relatively long tail. Blog Resiliency and the Management of “Accessible” Resources Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell suggested that the Fed would start tapering its bond purchasing activities in November with the plan of fully winding down the element of market support by mid-2022, at which point they might begin to raise short-term rates. Blog Better Enterprise Resource Management The pathway through the period of widespread volatility we face will require making resiliency a central organizational objective, and the only way to achieve financial resiliency is through effective resource allocation. Blog Pagination First page First Previous page ‹ … Page 6 Current page 7 Page 8 Next page › Last page Last
My Breast Cancer Journey SVP, Lisa Goldstein, shares what she learned about hospitals, healthcare, and the not-for-profit mission from her breast cancer journey. Blog
Higher Rates and Capital Structure Management As organizations consider how to respond to rising rates, one option is introducing capital structure risk: using floating rate products, put bonds, or other structures that move debt to a lower cost point on the yield curve in exchange for assuming risk. Blog
Can Governance Be Measured? Almost everything that not-for-profit hospital ratings analysts evaluate can be measured, quantified, and databased. Except for one: governance. Blog
Driving New Roads with Old Maps Healthcare issuance has been relatively modest over the past several weeks, with a mix of tax-exempt and taxable transactions across the credit curve. Transactions continue to get done... Blog
Ratings Matter, But Long-Term Viability Matters More “Will I be downgraded if my organization’s margins decline because I am investing for its future?” This is one of the most common questions that provider organizations ask ratings... Blog
COVID Stabilization and Lines of Credit As the COVID crisis moderates, the question for most organizations is whether to maintain lines of credit. The answer requires clarity on the purpose of these facilities today. Blog
Why Stories Matter Over the years, I have had many things that I have wanted to tell the executives at not-for-profit hospitals. As a ratings analyst, however, I couldn’t. Now I can. This is the first of... Blog
To 2022 and Beyond Happy New Year and high hopes for a healthy, happy, and successful 2022; the one certainty is that it won’t be uneventful. Let’s kick off this year’s discussion with a level-setting... Blog
A Long Strange Trip We are heading into the holiday lull, but markets will continue to be buffeted by a host of competing events. Markets careen from one risk to another and key volatility indicators—like... Blog
Are Inflationary Pressures Transitory or Structural? The Fed is predicting that inflationary pressures are transitory, but healthcare leaders face the business challenge of major expense inputs that have moved to new levels based on pressures that may have a relatively long tail. Blog
Resiliency and the Management of “Accessible” Resources Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell suggested that the Fed would start tapering its bond purchasing activities in November with the plan of fully winding down the element of market support by mid-2022, at which point they might begin to raise short-term rates. Blog
Better Enterprise Resource Management The pathway through the period of widespread volatility we face will require making resiliency a central organizational objective, and the only way to achieve financial resiliency is through effective resource allocation. Blog