Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Next page › Last page Last Hospital Conversion Foundations: Keeping the Community Promise After a Transaction Closes The decision to partner with another health system is always a high-stakes decision for a board. The creation of a community foundation is one way to ensure that a health system’s focus on its community remains intact, with new potential to improve the lives of community residents. Article Kaufman Hall Responds to Request for Information on Consolidation in Healthcare Markets The Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, and Federal Trade Commission recently issued a request for information on consolidation in healthcare markets. Kaufman Hall raises several concerns regarding assumptions and methodologies underlying the request. Article Building Skilled Nursing Relationships to Improve Hospital Length of Stay To successfully reduce length of stay, health system management will need to combine performance improvement efforts with efforts to successfully align themselves more closely with skilled nursing providers. Article The Five Most Interesting Transactions Announced in 2023 Transaction momentum continued to build in 2023. Here are our thoughts on the five most interesting hospital and health system transactions from the past year. Article The Updated Merger Guidelines’ Impact on the Healthcare Sector The DOJ and FTC recently released proposed updated merger guidelines that, if finalized in similar form, will increase the degree of difficulty associated with mergers and acquisitions. Learn more about the legal and strategic implications for healthcare organizations. Article Partnerships Go Bold as Organizations Face New Challenges At a transformational moment for not-for-profit healthcare, recent trends in partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions indicate that hospitals and health systems are exploring increasingly bold strategies to meet new challenges. Article Strategic Alternatives for Health System Outreach Laboratories 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... Article Senior Living at a Crossroads: Organizations Reassess Their Role in an Evolving Industry As the Baby Boom generation completes its transition into senior status—the entire generation is expected to reach retirement age by 2030—operators of senior living facilities will need... Article Taking a Fresh Look at Affiliation Options for Physicians and Health Systems Health systems and physician practices—both independent and employed—could benefit from taking a fresh look at their affiliation options. Many health systems , responding in part to a... Article Preparing for Risk-Based Contracting and Value-Based Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities In a roundtable discussion, Kaufman Hall Managing Directors Matthew Bates and Nora Kelly and Senior Vice President Max Timm discuss the rise of risk-based contracting in value-based healthcare arrangements, what providers and insurers need to watch out for, and what success in risk-based contracting will look like. Article Less Can Be More: New Considerations for Hospital and Health System Partnerships The year 2022 is proving to be the most challenging financial year of the COVID-19 pandemic for hospitals and health systems, with lagging volumes, rising expenses, and limited... Article Evaluating Skilled Nursing Options in an Evolving Post-Acute Landscape Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) play an important role within the continuum of care. A high-performing SNF is a critical ally for health systems, particularly those who are focused on... Article Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Next page › Last page Last
Hospital Conversion Foundations: Keeping the Community Promise After a Transaction Closes The decision to partner with another health system is always a high-stakes decision for a board. The creation of a community foundation is one way to ensure that a health system’s focus on its community remains intact, with new potential to improve the lives of community residents. Article
Kaufman Hall Responds to Request for Information on Consolidation in Healthcare Markets The Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, and Federal Trade Commission recently issued a request for information on consolidation in healthcare markets. Kaufman Hall raises several concerns regarding assumptions and methodologies underlying the request. Article
Building Skilled Nursing Relationships to Improve Hospital Length of Stay To successfully reduce length of stay, health system management will need to combine performance improvement efforts with efforts to successfully align themselves more closely with skilled nursing providers. Article
The Five Most Interesting Transactions Announced in 2023 Transaction momentum continued to build in 2023. Here are our thoughts on the five most interesting hospital and health system transactions from the past year. Article
The Updated Merger Guidelines’ Impact on the Healthcare Sector The DOJ and FTC recently released proposed updated merger guidelines that, if finalized in similar form, will increase the degree of difficulty associated with mergers and acquisitions. Learn more about the legal and strategic implications for healthcare organizations. Article
Partnerships Go Bold as Organizations Face New Challenges At a transformational moment for not-for-profit healthcare, recent trends in partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions indicate that hospitals and health systems are exploring increasingly bold strategies to meet new challenges. Article
Strategic Alternatives for Health System Outreach Laboratories 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... Article
Senior Living at a Crossroads: Organizations Reassess Their Role in an Evolving Industry As the Baby Boom generation completes its transition into senior status—the entire generation is expected to reach retirement age by 2030—operators of senior living facilities will need... Article
Taking a Fresh Look at Affiliation Options for Physicians and Health Systems Health systems and physician practices—both independent and employed—could benefit from taking a fresh look at their affiliation options. Many health systems , responding in part to a... Article
Preparing for Risk-Based Contracting and Value-Based Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities In a roundtable discussion, Kaufman Hall Managing Directors Matthew Bates and Nora Kelly and Senior Vice President Max Timm discuss the rise of risk-based contracting in value-based healthcare arrangements, what providers and insurers need to watch out for, and what success in risk-based contracting will look like. Article
Less Can Be More: New Considerations for Hospital and Health System Partnerships The year 2022 is proving to be the most challenging financial year of the COVID-19 pandemic for hospitals and health systems, with lagging volumes, rising expenses, and limited... Article
Evaluating Skilled Nursing Options in an Evolving Post-Acute Landscape Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) play an important role within the continuum of care. A high-performing SNF is a critical ally for health systems, particularly those who are focused on... Article