Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page › Last page Last Does Your Institution’s Planning Process Need an Upgrade? In making strategic decisions with financial and capital requirements, leaders must thoroughly take into account the various operational and strategic tradeoffs, long-term ramifications... Article How Resource Allocation Fits into the Planning Cycle Why is resource allocation so difficult? Resource allocation is the process by which leaders of an institution quantitatively define available capital resources and make decisions... Article 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 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 Winter 2022 Kaufman Hall Report: Strategies for Improving Recruitment and Retention Hospitals and health systems are feeling the full effects of the Great Resignation as labor expenses climb despite lower staffing levels. As a result, hospitals are paying higher wages to compete for qualified personnel. Read the Winter 2022 Kaufman Hall Report for strategies for improving recruitment and retention. Research Report 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 Operationalizing Value-Based Primary Care: Lessons from the Field For more than a decade, hospitals, payers, and other healthcare stakeholders have experimented with moving healthcare payment from fee-for-service, volume-based contracts to arrangements that reward providers for the value of the care they provide. Article Managing Market Issues and Opportunities Amid Complex Pressures Debt issuance has been modest, but there is significant building supply. The issuance context is continuing benchmark and credit spread disruption as markets react to competing... Blog Reviving Revenue in the Post-Pandemic World As we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, we face a changed reality. Expenses—particularly labor expenses—have reset at a higher level. Inflation is rising at rates not seen since the... Blog Developing a Point of View About Inflation In February, U.S. inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index grew 7.9% year-over-year, the highest increase in four decades. The factors influencing the current inflationary... Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Hope Doesn’t Pay Debt Service…or Does It? “Hope doesn’t pay debt service” is a message I heard repeatedly from many hospital executives during my years as a ratings analyst. Any astute finance executive or finance committee... Blog New Revenue Cycle Insights: Flash Intelligence Kaufman Hall’s new Flash Intelligence series offers unique, data-driven insights on hospital and health system spending trends, leveraging data from nearly 1,000 hospitals. The first... Research Report Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page › Last page Last
Does Your Institution’s Planning Process Need an Upgrade? In making strategic decisions with financial and capital requirements, leaders must thoroughly take into account the various operational and strategic tradeoffs, long-term ramifications... Article
How Resource Allocation Fits into the Planning Cycle Why is resource allocation so difficult? Resource allocation is the process by which leaders of an institution quantitatively define available capital resources and make decisions... Article
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
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
Winter 2022 Kaufman Hall Report: Strategies for Improving Recruitment and Retention Hospitals and health systems are feeling the full effects of the Great Resignation as labor expenses climb despite lower staffing levels. As a result, hospitals are paying higher wages to compete for qualified personnel. Read the Winter 2022 Kaufman Hall Report for strategies for improving recruitment and retention. Research Report
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
Operationalizing Value-Based Primary Care: Lessons from the Field For more than a decade, hospitals, payers, and other healthcare stakeholders have experimented with moving healthcare payment from fee-for-service, volume-based contracts to arrangements that reward providers for the value of the care they provide. Article
Managing Market Issues and Opportunities Amid Complex Pressures Debt issuance has been modest, but there is significant building supply. The issuance context is continuing benchmark and credit spread disruption as markets react to competing... Blog
Reviving Revenue in the Post-Pandemic World As we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, we face a changed reality. Expenses—particularly labor expenses—have reset at a higher level. Inflation is rising at rates not seen since the... Blog
Developing a Point of View About Inflation In February, U.S. inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index grew 7.9% year-over-year, the highest increase in four decades. The factors influencing the current inflationary... Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Hope Doesn’t Pay Debt Service…or Does It? “Hope doesn’t pay debt service” is a message I heard repeatedly from many hospital executives during my years as a ratings analyst. Any astute finance executive or finance committee... Blog
New Revenue Cycle Insights: Flash Intelligence Kaufman Hall’s new Flash Intelligence series offers unique, data-driven insights on hospital and health system spending trends, leveraging data from nearly 1,000 hospitals. The first... Research Report