Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A The Value of the Board Retreat Those of you who read my blog regularly know that my focus tends toward either hospital operations or healthcare policy. In my latest blog, I want to change the pace and talk about the value of a well-planned and well-executed Board retreat. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman The “Productization” of Healthcare Is Not Kind to Hospitals Explore how hospitals and health systems are faring in an increasingly productized healthcare marketplace. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Pandemic Redux? When the nation is unprepared for catastrophic public health emergencies, the consequences are as real as they can get. As we saw with COVID-19, many people died while the country’s public health apparatus struggled to catch up, and America’s hospitals, jumped into the breach. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman When Financial Performance Matters We have entered a financial moment when paying attention to the sunk cost fallacy will be central to maintaining, or recovering, the financial, clinical, and mission strength of America’s hospitals. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Does Your Approach to Charity Care Live Up to Your Own Standards? Not-for-profit hospitals have recently been spotlighted for practices related to their level of and approach to charity care. Blog What Social Health Can Learn from the Quality Journey As much as 80% of health outcomes are determined by circumstances and factors outside of clinical care. Blog
The Value of the Board Retreat Those of you who read my blog regularly know that my focus tends toward either hospital operations or healthcare policy. In my latest blog, I want to change the pace and talk about the value of a well-planned and well-executed Board retreat. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
The “Productization” of Healthcare Is Not Kind to Hospitals Explore how hospitals and health systems are faring in an increasingly productized healthcare marketplace. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Pandemic Redux? When the nation is unprepared for catastrophic public health emergencies, the consequences are as real as they can get. As we saw with COVID-19, many people died while the country’s public health apparatus struggled to catch up, and America’s hospitals, jumped into the breach. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
When Financial Performance Matters We have entered a financial moment when paying attention to the sunk cost fallacy will be central to maintaining, or recovering, the financial, clinical, and mission strength of America’s hospitals. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Does Your Approach to Charity Care Live Up to Your Own Standards? Not-for-profit hospitals have recently been spotlighted for practices related to their level of and approach to charity care. Blog
What Social Health Can Learn from the Quality Journey As much as 80% of health outcomes are determined by circumstances and factors outside of clinical care. Blog