Kaufman Hall Managing Director Jim Blake and Senior Vice President Erik Swanson recently joined the Hospital Finance Podcast and host Michael Passanante to discuss findings from the...

Corporate response to social justice issues has become a leading new governance challenge.

A very interesting short article recently appeared in The New York Times that explored the COVID phenomenon of “languishing.” The author defines languishing as “the collective fog we...

A focus on resiliency requires blending vertical and horizontal perspectives on components of an organization’s portfolio of clinical services and strategic initiatives.

For a very long time, hospitals have been organized around three principles that inform the way they run their organizations, and how they conduct themselves in the management suite and the board room.

For California’s hospitals, financial health is absolutely necessary in order to deliver needed services to communities, to maintain facilities, to invest in new services and...

U.S. hospitals and health systems saw mixed performance in March as national COVID-19 metrics plateaued early in the month before climbing steadily again with increased spread of COVID-19 variants, rising travel rates, and further lifting of pandemic-related restrictions in many states.

Although intended to increase transparency of an entity’s leasing activities, FASB’s new Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) Topic 842 can still leave expenses that can generate a...

In this recording we hear from John Daniels, Jr., Chairman of the Board, Advocate Aurora Health and Chairman Emeritus of Milwaukee-based Quarles & Brady law firm. He explores the societal lessons from the tumult of 2020, how addressing racial and ethnic healthcare disparities benefits all Americans the progress of national vaccination efforts.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has introduced new and potentially long-lasting volatility into traditional financial planning processes at hospitals and health systems. Financial planning remains as important as ever—perhaps even more so as the risk of operating dislocation continues, and new risks appear on the horizon.

Sustaining Higher Ed is a monthly blog dedicated to helping college administrators and board trustees lead their organizations toward greater financial stability so they can stay on...

On this episode Michael Peregrine and Ken Kaufman discuss a number of important post-pandemic developments for the board to consider.