Hospitals facing prolonged patient stays can improve throughput and financial performance through strategic partnerships, stronger care coordination, and better discharge planning.

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.

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The latest Kaufman Hall Report includes an inside look at resetting organizational enterprise strategy.

Watch an engaging discussion with Moody’s, Fitch and S&P on their latest industry outlooks and hear top-of-mind topics including cyber preparedness, financial performance and capital spending as we head into the second half of the year, and contemporary strategies for long-term sustainability.

To successfully reduce length of stay, health system management will need to combine performance improvement efforts with efforts to successfully align themselves more closely with skilled nursing providers.

In a roundtable discussion, Kaufman Hall Managing Directors Matthew Bates and Nora Kelly and Senior Vice President Max Timm discuss the rise of risk-based contracting in value-based healthcare arrangements, what providers and insurers need to watch out for, and what success in risk-based contracting will look like.

As health systems look to the future, surgical volume will continue shifting from HOPDs to ASCs. Health systems must be innovative and flexible to ensure that they participate in that growth with physician partners and others.

The aggressive growth plans of physician practice disruptors mean that competitive dynamics might change—and change quickly—in many local markets. Learn how independent physician groups and health systems can respond.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the U.S. was already facing a behavioral health crisis. Since the pandemic began last year, the magnitude of that crisis has grown: Approximately...