Strategic Planning
Snapshot
Years of deep cuts to mental health care services have left ill-equipped hospital emergency departments struggling to care for untreated patients. Three organizations confronted the problem head-on by integrating behavioral health into primary and specialty care, screening and supporting…
Other organizations’ population health activities focus on individuals living in a specific geographic area or community (66 percent), those experiencing a certain disease or condition (57 percent) or individuals for whom the organization has a financial risk (46 percent),…
SNAPSHOT Hospital and system leaders say that they are acclimating to the transformed health care environment, but risk-based contracts, pressure to grow and regulatory scrutiny continue to buffet their organizations. Over breakfast, a small group of hospital and health system…
Emergency physicians have noticed an increase in the volume of emergency department patients since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act on Jan. 1, 2014, according to a survey of American College of Emergency Physicians members. The poll, which sought to understand changes in ED patient…
Mergers and acquisitions are complex and daunting to accomplish, full of intricate legal and financial questions, business-benefit projections and formulas for extracting efficiencies of scale. All that due diligence generally is done by the time the organizations start to interact. And then…
The board is responsible for setting the hospital or health system’s mission and vision, and for engaging leaders and staff in working toward that vision. After the board, no individual has more influence over the organization than the CEO; however, the board defines the leadership…
Snapshot What are the levers that are moving health care toward transformation? Thinking about how we can unite to support these drivers of change constitutes a new kind of industry handbook.
Snapshot For boards to lead their organizations to value-based care, they will need highly skilled, energized and diverse members. However, a new governance survey finds that they have some work to do in diversity, competencies and turnover.
Snapshot State Medicaid programs are saving money and improving quality by adding risk-based reimbursement and care models that wrap around patients. The states to watch are Oregon, Arkansas, Vermont and New York. With many in the hospital field looking to Washington, D.C., for guidance on how…
An operational indicator used by financial analysts, this ratio is a measure of how efficiently hospital assets are converted to revenue. The ratio’s numerator is net patient revenue plus total other income, and the denominator is total assets. A higher ratio is generally viewed as a positive…