Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A The Balance Sheet Buffer Balance sheet strength has buffered consumers and businesses from some of the restrictive shock of higher rates. With a relatively brittle revenue model in healthcare, the focus becomes whether, when, and how to restructure operations as balance sheets are spent down. Blog External Capital Formation in a Higher Rate Environment After years of monetary tingle, a more restrictive stance from the Federal Reserve is creating a chill. A sustained higher interest rate environment may require finance teams to rethink external capital formation strategies. Blog Thoughts About a Governance Downgrade Fitch Ratings recently downgraded the United States’ long-term rating. Healthcare confronts a different manifestation of the same pressures confronting the U.S., and the lesson for leaders is that governance and planning systems matter. Blog The Quest for Soft Landings For the Federal Reserve, a soft landing means we arrive at the 2% inflation target without a recession. For healthcare, a soft landing is operating and investment entity recovery that stabilizes credit positioning and facilitates capital formation. Blog From Incremental to Multivariable Management The challenges facing health system leaders today are so diverse, interconnected, and relentless that an incremental management approach won’t work. The best response is grounded in simultaneous and tightly integrated efforts across multiple areas of focus. Blog Resource Positioning and the 2023 Debt Ceiling Agreement 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... Blog The Balance Sheet Bridge 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... Blog The Near-Far Problem Current Funding Environment Healthcare 2023 issuance is down 60% versus the same time frame in 2022. What few offerings have come have been generally well received, but the depth of the... Blog The Not-for-Profit Healthcare Resource Chasm Current Funding Environment Healthcare debt issuance remains incredibly light. How long can a capital-intensive industry tolerate limited capital generation? Is pressure building to... Blog Challenging Indicators for the Federal Reserve Current Rate Environment Healthcare transactions continue to enter the markets, but still at a relatively slow pace. The experience continues to be generally strong investor support and... Blog 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
The Balance Sheet Buffer Balance sheet strength has buffered consumers and businesses from some of the restrictive shock of higher rates. With a relatively brittle revenue model in healthcare, the focus becomes whether, when, and how to restructure operations as balance sheets are spent down. Blog
External Capital Formation in a Higher Rate Environment After years of monetary tingle, a more restrictive stance from the Federal Reserve is creating a chill. A sustained higher interest rate environment may require finance teams to rethink external capital formation strategies. Blog
Thoughts About a Governance Downgrade Fitch Ratings recently downgraded the United States’ long-term rating. Healthcare confronts a different manifestation of the same pressures confronting the U.S., and the lesson for leaders is that governance and planning systems matter. Blog
The Quest for Soft Landings For the Federal Reserve, a soft landing means we arrive at the 2% inflation target without a recession. For healthcare, a soft landing is operating and investment entity recovery that stabilizes credit positioning and facilitates capital formation. Blog
From Incremental to Multivariable Management The challenges facing health system leaders today are so diverse, interconnected, and relentless that an incremental management approach won’t work. The best response is grounded in simultaneous and tightly integrated efforts across multiple areas of focus. Blog
Resource Positioning and the 2023 Debt Ceiling Agreement 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... Blog
The Balance Sheet Bridge 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... Blog
The Near-Far Problem Current Funding Environment Healthcare 2023 issuance is down 60% versus the same time frame in 2022. What few offerings have come have been generally well received, but the depth of the... Blog
The Not-for-Profit Healthcare Resource Chasm Current Funding Environment Healthcare debt issuance remains incredibly light. How long can a capital-intensive industry tolerate limited capital generation? Is pressure building to... Blog
Challenging Indicators for the Federal Reserve Current Rate Environment Healthcare transactions continue to enter the markets, but still at a relatively slow pace. The experience continues to be generally strong investor support and... Blog
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