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...

In the early days of COVID, The Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece by Allison Schrager that has stayed with us throughout the pandemic. Schrager built her essay on the...

In this webinar, Kaufman Hall Senior Vice Presidents Steven Sohn and Geoff Stenger will discuss impacts of the LIBOR transition on bank credit agreements and derivatives, including LIBOR replacement alternatives, amendment options for existing agreements, and fallback rate calculations for LIBOR-based swaps.

With the COVID crisis entering its third year and continuing to demand the immediate attention of hospitals, executives should look closely at Amazon’s example of investing across their businesses to satisfy long-term customer needs.

Happy New Year and high hopes for a healthy, happy, and successful 2022; the one certainty is that it won’t be uneventful. Let’s kick off this year’s discussion with a level-setting...

As universities face difficult financial challenges, integrated strategic financial planning helps identify options to keep institutions on a sustainable path forward.

Throughout 2021, there was one consistent trend in partnership, merger, and acquisition transactions between hospitals and health systems: the number of transactions was down, but the...

Hospitals and health systems nationwide experienced another challenging month in November as COVID-19 hospitalizations rose more than 25% over the course of the month.

This week Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell affirmed that the wind down in Quantitative Easing will accelerate while introducing the potential for three 0.25% rate hikes during...

To mitigate the impact of labor shortages, health systems must ensure they can move nimbly in hiring qualified staff while doubling down on their employee retention strategies.

Kaufman Hall managing directors Courtney Midanek and Dawn Samaris discuss how health systems are trying to play a more holistic role in meeting behavioral health needs in their communities, and how a partnership strategy can help them achieve their goals.

Healthcare organizations have faced a set of historically intractable problems, some of which have become far more apparent and intense in the 20 months since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, including dealing with the fallout of a public health system.