Strategic Options: Understanding the Risks
Traditional operating strategies that sustained community hospitals in the past will not sustain them into the future. Where do community…
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Stroudwater Promotes Two Consultants, Welcomes New Consultant, Accepts Patriot Award
Opal Greenway & Jonathan Pantenburg promoted to principal | Zach Boser joins firm | Jeff Sommer accepts Patriot Award in…
Three Critical Components For Joint Venture Ambulatory Surgery Center Success
Joint venture ASCs are driven increasingly by physician-hospital alignment rather than the immediate margin lift from hospital outpatient department rates.
How To Use a Variable Labor Budget to Quickly Adjust Staffing To Match Volume
This Variable Labor Budget allows leadership teams, in partnership with front-line managers, to quickly adjust staffing as volumes fluctuate over…
Medicare Margins Continue To Erode as Value-based Care Upends Traditional FFS Model
As Medicare margins continue to erode, one-time gains hospitals and health systems experienced as result of Medicaid expansion or private…
Here’s Why (and How) Practices Need to Engage Physicians Around Financials
Not engaging physicians around the financial aspects of their practice compromises the practices’ financial performance.
Demand-based Staffing: How to Set The Course w/ Initial Performance Goals
An Initial Performance Goal is a preliminary performance goal, the starting point for articulating expectations across departments.
Kaiser Family Foundation Hospital Utilization per 1000 (2005-2017)
Click graphic below to see your state’s hospital admissions, ER visits, inpatient and outpatient days per 1000 population – and…
The Real ROI From Team-based Care: Increased Panel Size
The single greatest measurable return on investment for team-based care is increased panel size. Sharing of responsibilities across an entire…