Today's Technology Spending Trends
This report identifies key industry trends, such as payment trends, healthcare technology, unfunded liabilities, and hospital construction, that affect a hospital's capital position and ability to fund future initiatives.
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Strategies for Managing Hospital Construction Costs
Providers, construction consultants, and other facility planning experts share their best advice for ways to meet the facility needs of the future—with an eye to the bottom line.
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Essentials of Integrated Strategic Financial Planning and Capital Allocation
This report analyzes the last three points of the seven principles of best practices financial management: aligning an organization's long-range strategic, financial, and related operating plans; having consistent methodologies to evaluate capital investment opportunities and create a level playing field; and using financial metrics regularly to ensure favorable financial performance.
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Strategies for Effective Capital Structure Management
This report discusses the eight strategies hospitals and health systems can use for effective capital structure management. Capital structure management focuses on creating, shaping, and directing the debt and equity portfolio in a changing market. Increased capital access, added flexibility, and lower overall cost of capital are the benefits of an effective capital structure management program.
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Strategies for Financially Distressed Hospitals
This Financing the Future II report examines strategies to improve the financial situation for distressed hospitals. A turnaround plan addressing strategic, clinical, operational, and financial performance is necessary to improve the financial status for the hospital or health system.
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Seven Principles of Best Practice Financial Management
The seven principles of best practice capital management are discussed in this report. Adhering to these principles increases a hospital's ability to access capital, make wise investment decisions, and improve the hospital or health system's financial performance.
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The Outlook for Capital Access and Spending
This report is based on interviews with healthcare leaders including Martin Arrick, Dick Clarke, and Paul Ginsburg, discussing the future of healthcare spending and capital access. Updated capital access data is provided.
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Capital Spending in Health Care Today
This second of six reports on capital finance covers key questions about the level and effect of capital spending. How much capital are hospitals spending, what kinds of hospitals are spending more, and what are hospitals spending capital on?
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The Future of Capital Spending
The third of six reports on capital finance covers the future needs of capital spending for healthcare organizations. Questions examined in this Financing the Future report include the following: the need for capital in the future; which geograpic areas will need capital the most ; how will hospitals allocate their capital among competing needs; and how much will capital spending increase.
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Core Competencies in Capital Planning
The fifth report in the six-part Financing the Future series examines three core competencies of capital planning: strategic planning, managing the balance sheet, and hiring experts or capital advisers. Best practices for each of the core competencies is provided in the report.
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Where the Industry Will Go from Here
The final report of the six-part Financing the Future series is based on a panel discussion of healthcare leaders on the future state of the health system, what hospitals can do to survive and thrive, and the role of government in helping hospitals deal with limited access to capital.
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Access to Capital in Health Care Today
This is the first of six reports focusing on capital finance for healthcare organizations. It examines sources of capital, who has access to capital, how to get access, and steps for the future.
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Joint Ventures with Physicians and Other Partners
Joint ventures with physicians can provide hospitals and health systems the potential for improved market share and financial performance. Healthcare leaders need to evaluate the joint venture opportunity within a corporate finance-based framework, which aligns the joint venture with the hospital's long-range strategic, financial, and operating plans.
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The Future of Capital Access
The fourth out of six Financing the Future reports covers the future of capital access for healthcare organizations. This report is based on a survey of 460 hospital CFOs, examining the difficulties hospitals will face when attempting to access capital, the future sources of capital, and how can hospitals increase their access to capital in the future.
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Financing the Future Project
For many hospitals and health systems, accessing the necessary funds to make improvements in medical equipment, technology and facilities remains a top challenge. HFMA teamed up with GE to shed some light on this topic.
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Healthcare Construction Trends and Capital Implications
This report examines successful approaches to planning, financing, designing, and constructing the hospital buildings of tomorrow.
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Managing Unfunded Liabilities: Will Your Hospital Be Prepared?
This report offers expert perspectives on the present and future status of unfunded liabilities and advice for hospital executives looking to balance fund obligations with portfolio risk.
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Top Trends in Healthcare Facility Design and Planning: 2007
What should be on leadership's radar and how should the organization prepare? This special section to hfm is designed to help financial executives stay ahead of the curve on issues of greatest influence to building, design, construction, and financing.
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Healthcare Payment: Goals, Trends, and Strategies
This report examines how payment trends, such as pay-for-performance and consumer-directed healthcare, impact a hospital's capital position and ability to fund future initiatives.
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HFMA's Annual Real Estate, Design, and Construction Review: 2007
CFOs play a key role in identifying business opportunities and controlling costs associated with facility design and construction. To aid in this function, HFMA explores in a series of reports optimal real estate management practices, healthcare trends and capital planning implications, and tips from those in the field demonstrating real estate design, planning, and construction success.
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Capital Planning: How Strategic Is Your Organization?
HFMA, with sponsorship from VHA, Inc., asks six senior financial experts to review the fundamentals of their capital planning strategy and share some of the lessons they've learned along the way.
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The Future of Not-for-Profit Healthcare Capital Financing
This report examines some of the factors that will affect not-for-profit hospitals' access to capital and highlights several of the drivers that will increase capital financing for healthcare organizations in the next few years.
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HFMA's Annual Real Estate, Design, and Construction Review: 2006
CFO's play a key role in identifying business opportunities and controlling costs associated with facility design and construction. To aid in this function, HFMA explores in a series of reports optimal real estate management practices, healthcare trends, and capital planning implications, and tips from those in the field demonstrating real estate design, planning, and construction success.
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HFMA's Annual Real Estate Design and Construction Review : 2008
This report examines specific ways hospitals can be environmentally friendly in their real estate planning and construction. Green materials and products in hospitals uses 30 percent less energy than non-green healthcare entities.
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How Will America Replace Its Rural Hospitals?
This report is based on a roundtable discussion with healthcare finance executives on the recent regulatory changes which have improved the financial viability of rural hospitals and increased their eligibility for capital financing.
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Financing Options for Nonprofit Small and Rural Hospitals
This white paper, prepared by Lancaster Pollard & Co., is designed to demystify several financial options available to not-for-profit small and rural hospitals.
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Design for Success: Efficiency and Effectiveness through the Facility Design
The aging baby boomers population is increasing the demand for health services, and spurring the construction and renovation of hospitals and health systems. New construction allows organizations to pursue design that improve the margin and mission of the hospital. Evidence-based design quantifys the influence of the healthcare environment on the patient's health status, patient and staff satisfaction, and financial performance of the healthcare organization.
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