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Current Funding Environment IU Health (Aa2/AA/AA), AdventHealth (Aa2/NR/AA), Banner Health (NR/AA-/AA-), and Arkansas Children’s Hospital (A1/AA-/NR) came to market this week with...

Hospital finances broke even in April amid a continuing trend of high expenses and the unwinding of the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement of the COVID-19 public health emergency

Our latest report uncovers emerging workforce spending trends.

Anyone unfamiliar with the financial structure of not-for-profit colleges and universities may question why these organizations often carry significant financial reserves on their...

Current Funding Environment The healthcare financings that came in the past couple of weeks generally did well. Maturities seemed to do better than put bonds, and it remains important...

Nurse leaders must understand their fiduciary role as executives with respect to their organization’s capital needs. In this article and accompanying podcast, healthcare expert Lisa Goldstein explains the issues related to hospital debt, and specifically, to hospital bonds.

Various industry pressures have accelerated an evolution of laboratory businesses in recent years, with particular impacts on labs owned by health systems. As a result, many systems are...

There has always been a connection between performance improvement initiatives and the balance sheet. By reducing operating costs, boosting productivity, and enhancing revenues, a...

Hospital finances improved slightly in March as hospital leaders navigate high expenses and economic pressures. While margins continue to stabilize, they remain below pre-pandemic levels—leaving hospitals in a vulnerable position should a recession or new public health emergency arise.

Physician and provider productivity is on the rise as patients continue to reengage and seek out care that was put off during the pandemic.

Understanding what your resources are, the role your decisions place them in, and then positioning them in a role-responsive way is the most important management initiative for every balance-sheet-centric organization.

The environment in which higher education is operating is creating the need for new thinking and strategies. Institutions may need to swing big and hope for a home run.