Nurse leaders must understand their fiduciary role as executives with respect to their organization’s capital needs. In this article and accompanying podcast, healthcare expert Lisa Goldstein explains the issues related to hospital debt, and specifically, to hospital bonds.

There has always been a connection between performance improvement initiatives and the balance sheet. By reducing operating costs, boosting productivity, and enhancing revenues, a...

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.

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...

Our March Rating Agency Webinar cover several important topics, including each agency’s not-for-profit healthcare sector outlook, key drivers and what that means for rating activity in 2023, covenant violations (or near misses) and how they are incorporated into rating decisions, trends in capital spending and an update on ESG.

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.

With limited sources of funding, hospitals and health systems rely on financial reserves to maintain their financial stability and support their growth. These reserves ensure that hospitals and health systems can continue to serve their communities through good times and bad.

Recent bank failures are a reminder of the importance of properly measuring counterparty risk and ensuring that business continuity plans include scenarios in which a banking partner is no longer able to provide key treasury services.

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...