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Seven Strategies for Improving Your Hospital's Capital Structure
by Andrew J. Majka
How to protect your bond rating, reevaluate risk, reshape your debt mix, and carry out other smart strategies. Read the article.
Case Study: Using Lab Data as the Basis for Business Intelligence
by Kelly Feist
The comprehensive LIS at Children's Hospital & Medical Center has become an important contributor to the organization's business intelligence strategy. Read the article.
Not-for-Profits Score Highest on Community Value Index®
by William O. Cleverley
For-profit hospitals scored lower than not-for-profit and government facilities. Read the article.
Constructing a Model to Evaluate Performance-Based Salaries
by William O. Cleverley and James O. Cleverley
Determine appropriate merit-based salaries and bonuses for senior executives by evaluating organizational performance on four dimensions: financial, cost, community benefit, and quality of care. Read the article.
A Healthcare Reform Forecast--and What to Do About It
by Jeffrey Bauer
True healthcare reform must begin at home with concerted efforts to increase quality and reduce inefficiency and costs. Read the article.
Reverse Energy Auctions: When Suppliers Compete, You Win
An interview with Gina Pugliese and Vince Pryor
Reverse energy auctions offer a competitive edge for eligible hospitals and health systems that want to take advantage of the current dip in energy prices. Read the Q&A.
Bonus checklist: How the Reverse Auction Energy Process Works
The Rise of RACs: How to Protect Yourself from Bounty Hunting
by Bruce Hallowell
The best RAC strategy is to assume a RAC audit could happen tomorrow, and be prepared to receive the notification letter. Read the article.
Strategies to Cope with Changing Patient Volumes
From HFMA's Healthcare Financial Pulse project
Finance executives share a number of strategies they are employing to enhance patient volumes and control costs. Read the article.
Current Web Extras
How CFOs Can Boost Hospital Fundraising: Lessons from Grinnell Regional Medical Center
Philanthropy supplies 50 percent to 75 percent of capital at Grinnell Regional Medical Center. Read the article.
Helping Employees Through Personal Financial Crises
by William Martin
Specific steps that CFOs and other healthcare executives and managers can take to help employees better manage their own financial health. Read the article.
70 No-Brainers for Building Green
by Alan Whitson
A list for hospital leaders who are planning a building or renovation project. Read the list.
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