A recent investor conversation at the Kaufman Hall Healthcare Leadership Conference offers insights as to where investors are focused today, and what borrowers can do to meet the market on favorable terms.

The role of Treasury in healthcare is changing. Once primarily viewed as the department that moved cash and managed bank accounts, Treasury has become the conduit for moving financial information across the organization.

Health system executive leaders and boards have recently weathered numerous existential challenges, from COVID-19 to cyberattacks to the One Big Beautiful Bill.

Many health systems assume their core service lines are their financial pillars. These programs are highly visible, central to their identity as high-quality providers and often among the most active areas in the system. But activity is not the same as performance.

As AI adoption accelerates, leaders must strengthen oversight, accuracy and maturity to ensure safe, scalable and sustainable results.

The APP role has therefore evolved dramatically, from supportive clinician to high-quality care leader. But the readiness framework has not kept pace.

In healthcare today, organizations can face opportunities across geographies and sectors, each with their own unique benefits and risks. But like a fruit tree at harvest time, these opportunities can be time sensitive.

When health systems lack strong governance, tremble at the thought of change or fail to move in unison across their hospitals, progress decays and the cobwebs of inefficiency spread.

The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB), passed this summer, contains a provision of great consequence for hospitals: Medicaid work requirements.

Fluency across clinical and financial perspectives is redefining leadership in healthcare

Integration is about more than structure or ownership; it is a process that develops connective tissue among an organization’s disparate parts to unlock the full potential of an integrated system.

Culture is often considered a soft gauge of quality—difficult to define and measure, and highly qualitative in nature.