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...

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.

Various industry pressures have accelerated an evolution of laboratory businesses in recent years, with particular impacts on labs owned by health systems. As a result, many systems are...

Physician and provider productivity is on the rise as patients continue to reengage and seek out care that was put off during the pandemic.

Hospital finances improved slightly in March as hospital leaders navigate high expenses and economic pressures. While margins continue to stabilize, they remain below pre-pandemic levels—leaving hospitals in a vulnerable position should a recession or new public health emergency arise.

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.

The environment in which higher education is operating is creating the need for new thinking and strategies. Institutions may need to swing big and hope for a home run.

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.

Since the onset of the COVID 19 pandemic in March 2020, Alabama hospitals and health systems have taken unprecedented steps to care for their communities amid significant pressure on staff and resources.

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, Indiana hospitals and health systems have taken unprecedented steps to care for their communities amid significant pressure on staff and resources.