Addressing Health Disparities by Promoting Achievement in Disadvantaged Students
Barry D. Mann describes a national program that Main Line Health initiated to engage disadvantaged high school students in learning about healthcare operations and career possibilities.
Strategic Financial Planning: Fall 2018
Subscribers can access the Fall 2018 issue of Strategic Financial Planning.
5 Keys to Successful Performance Improvement
Bold moves, leadership, and constituent engagement are key to performance improvement initiatives.
3 Actions for Hospital Disaster Preparedness
Hospitals and health systems can take specific actions to continue operations, protect revenue, and limit credit rating downgrades.
Safety Net System Achieves $130M in Fiscal Improvements in 4 Years
Denials management and “keepage” strategies—keeping services within the health system—helped Maricopa Integrated Health Services improve its margins even in the face of a challenging payer mix.
A New Framework for Healthcare Performance Improvement
Improvement initiatives must increasingly focus on long-term, high-impact areas that reengineer clinical care, sharpen an organization’s service portfolio, and exploit the system’s scale of operations.
Six Ways to Look at Your Next Consolidation
To avoid making changes simply for the sake of change, healthcare leaders should attend to any unfinished business from prior changes and ensure any new move toward consolidation accounts for future uncertainty as well as potential new opportunities.
hfm Blog Archives: July-September 2018
Catch up on all of the hfm blog posts published between July and September 2018.
hfm Magazine: July 2018
The July 2018 edition of hfm explores people and culture in healthcare finance, focusing on performance improvement, academic-community relationships, and care delivery.
Service Line Analytics: Sound Decision-Making Starts with Reliable Data
Healthcare organizations are recognizing that incorporating service line analytics into strategic activities enables better understanding of each area’s financial and operational impacts. In addition, service line analytics signal when real-time improvements are needed and drive more informed decision-making.