In an environment unlike anything any of us have experienced, regaining financial equilibrium will require a comprehensive view of our organizations and environments and an openness to an outcome in which we do things very differently.

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...

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...

Understanding what your resources are, the role your decisions place them in, and then positioning them in a role-responsive way is the most important management initiative for every balance-sheet-centric organization.

Lately, every CEO I talk with tells me how hard it is to run a healthcare organization in 2023. These are people with long experience, people who over time have pushed the right buttons and pulled the right levers to make their organizations successful and to give their communities the care they need.

In conversations with hospitals and health system leadership across the U.S., most management teams express the same goal: get back to breakeven. For many, the road to breakeven will be bumpy with gains and setbacks along the way.

Current Funding Environment Wednesday’s inflation print showed a March increase of 0.1% versus February and a year-over-year increase of 5.0%, both of which were better than expected...

Current Funding Environment Healthcare debt issuance remains incredibly light, across both public and private channels. There is significant volatility across all fixed income markets...

Recent bank failures have shaken markets and raised questions about the stability of the banking system. This special market update explains why the failures that have occurred appear to be examples of institution-specific versus systemic risk, but notes that it remains too early to declare this a non-event.

All organizations, including America’s hospitals and health systems, need to confront the fact that no strategic plan lasts forever.

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...

Although lifting the Public Health Emergency (PHE) sends a hopeful message in the country’s battle against the coronavirus, phasing out this federal funding will bring new financial challenges to a battle-weary hospital industry.