The COVID-19 pandemic continues to undermine performance improvement efforts at hospitals and health systems across the country. Workforce realignments, a rapid push into telehealth, lower volumes, and rising labor and supply costs point to the need for transformative change.

Suzie Desai, Senior Director at S&P Global Ratings, Lisa Goldstein, Associate Managing Director at Moody’s Investors Service, and Kevin Holloran, Senior Director at Fitch Ratings, cover how rating agencies view the financial health of hospitals and what they are looking for in strategy and performance against a backdrop of uncertainty.

No one pushes the envelope on operations like Peter McCanna, President of Baylor Scott & White, who shares his perspective of the bold operational moves necessary in times of intense uncertainty.

Renowned thinker and speaker Sergio Rebelo, PhD, MUFG Bank Distinguished Professor of International Finance at Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, discusses macro- and microeconomic insights to suggest healthcare’s future direction.

Two of the sharpest board chairs we know, Michele Baker Richardson, JD, Chair, Advocate Aurora Health, and Patricia Wellenbach, Chair, Jefferson, share their vision for a new era of board guidance. The conversation was moderated by Ken Kaufman, Chair of Kaufman Hall.

On October 14, 2021, our annual Healthcare Leadership Conference shifted from its previous home at the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago to a virtual gathering. Watch the webinars on-demand!

Merger and acquisition activity in the third quarter of 2021 looked much like Q2: A lower total number of transactions compared with pre-pandemic historical activity, but a notably high...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell suggested that the Fed would start tapering its bond purchasing activities in November with the plan of fully winding down the element of market support by mid-2022, at which point they might begin to raise short-term rates.

Rising COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations from the hyper-transmissible Delta variant continued to deepen pressures on the nation’s hospitals and health systems in August, according to the latest issue of Kaufman Hall’s National Hospital Flash Report.

We’re observing something unique in the industry – a paradigm shift in where patients go to get their care and how they receive it. We see it in telehealth, consumerism and...

America’s hospitals face significant, ongoing financial instability as the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to fester.

When health system leaders are thinking about building a medical office building or ambulatory surgery center as part of their ambulatory and physician affiliation strategy, the first question they should ask is, “Do we need to incentivize physicians in this market with real estate and create owners instead of renters?”