Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A Pagination First page First Previous page ‹ … Page 2 Current page 3 Page 4 … Next page › Last page Last Moving Into and Through 2023 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... Blog Financial “Twindemic” and the Impact on Ratings 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. Blog Our Inflation Round Trip 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... Blog Inflation May Be Stabilizing, but a Transformative Period for Healthcare Has Only Just Begun 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... Blog Ratings Tolerance During Financial Turbulence 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. Blog An End to the Fed’s Interventionist Role? 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... Blog The Risk-Optionality Continuum 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... Blog A Strengthening Dollar's Balance Sheet Impacts 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... Blog Hitting the Reset Button With one out of every two hospitals expected to show an operating loss in 2022 , presentations to the rating agencies in many cases need to focus more on the turnaround plan and less on... Blog The Massive Gulf Between Normal and Today We see a continued modest capital formation environment. Bon Secours Mercy issued approximately $400 million of tax-exempt debt in a very difficult market. The transaction got done, but... Blog Navigating Under Pressure Not-for-profit healthcare issuance remains light across all public and private funding channels. Rates remain relatively attractive, but uncertainty about the depth and breadth of the... Blog Living in Interesting Times Benchmark yield curves are flat to inverted but long rates remain historically attractive. Public market not-for-profit healthcare issuance is light, reflecting two previous years of... Blog Pagination First page First Previous page ‹ … Page 2 Current page 3 Page 4 … Next page › Last page Last
Moving Into and Through 2023 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... Blog
Financial “Twindemic” and the Impact on Ratings 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. Blog
Our Inflation Round Trip 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... Blog
Inflation May Be Stabilizing, but a Transformative Period for Healthcare Has Only Just Begun 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... Blog
Ratings Tolerance During Financial Turbulence 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. Blog
An End to the Fed’s Interventionist Role? 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... Blog
The Risk-Optionality Continuum 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... Blog
A Strengthening Dollar's Balance Sheet Impacts 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... Blog
Hitting the Reset Button With one out of every two hospitals expected to show an operating loss in 2022 , presentations to the rating agencies in many cases need to focus more on the turnaround plan and less on... Blog
The Massive Gulf Between Normal and Today We see a continued modest capital formation environment. Bon Secours Mercy issued approximately $400 million of tax-exempt debt in a very difficult market. The transaction got done, but... Blog
Navigating Under Pressure Not-for-profit healthcare issuance remains light across all public and private funding channels. Rates remain relatively attractive, but uncertainty about the depth and breadth of the... Blog
Living in Interesting Times Benchmark yield curves are flat to inverted but long rates remain historically attractive. Public market not-for-profit healthcare issuance is light, reflecting two previous years of... Blog