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• Alignment, Action, and Accountability: Getting Results in a Down Economy
  Assess your effectiveness with managing the components of evidence-based leadership, including aligning goals, aligning behaviors, and ensuring accountability.
• Leading Through Turmoil: The Role of Finance
  HFMA President and CEO Richard L. Clarke, DHA, FHFMA, describes the "perfect storm" of economic, financial, and reform challenges facing healthcare providers and details the actions healthcare finance professionals can take to survive in these tumultuous times.
• The Burning Platform: Producing Change in Difficult Economic Times
  HFMA President and CEO Richard L. Clarke describes the burning platform that healthcare organizations are on today and outlines actions to help bring about change.
• Beyond the Burning Platform: Value Strategies for the Long Term
  The second of a two-part analysis by HFMA's Richard L. Clarke looks at providers that are achieving value-driven change today and how comparative analysis can produce metrics to guide boards in identifying areas and establishing goals for change.
• Integration Insights: NMRHS and Spectrum Health Discuss Their Proposed Union 
  The two healthcare systems’ leaders see integration as a necessary step in achieving value-driven healthcare reform.
• Managing Cost Reductions: The Beth Israel Deaconess Approach
  Beth Israel President and CEO Paul Levy solicits cost-saving recommendations from staff to avoid personnel cuts.
• Communicating Layoffs to Nursing Staff 
  Transparency and understanding are keys to helping staff through a difficult time.
• Financial Meltdown: Key Legal Issues for Healthcare Organizations
  Debt covenant concerns, delayed vendor payments, charity care policies, and staff reductions are among the issues addressed.
• The Next Wave of Mergers and Acquisitions: What’s Your Organization’s Position?
  Learn how your organization can prepare for a predicted period of restructuring in the healthcare industry.
• The Long View: How the Financial Downturn Will Change Health Care
  A major realignment of financial practices may be under way. How should your organization rethink its strategies and priorities?