HFMA gathering aims to arm CFOs for coming challenges
Inaugural HFMA Financial Sustainability Summit, April 16-17 in Denver, will bring together more than 200 hospital and physician practice CFOs to learn and share strategies.
Why health systems need a hybrid strategy and ambidextrous leadership to ensure financial sustainability
In today’s complex healthcare environment, health systems require an effective hybrid strategy that accounts for the fundamental differences among the various markets in which they compete, including inpatient, population health and emerging markets.
Novant Health: Shared reading program is a novel way to influence culture
Novant Health in North Carolina uses a shared reading program to engage team members, with books chosen to support either a system initiative or personal development.
How to successfully manage multiple generations in the workplace
With four generations working side by side, leaders at all levels of a healthcare organization should be aware of ways to promote cohesiveness and effective collaboration.
How to mesh employee personality types to foster a successful workplace
Leaders should be aware of different personality types and best practices for managing each.
Increased FTC scrutiny of hospital deals coming, commissioner says
Federal regulators plan to challenge several ongoing hospital transactions and are considering expanding the scope of their challenges.
8 stages to service line growth
With its emphasis on quality, efficiency, and physician-hospital alignment, the service line model fits well in the healthcare leader’s value-oriented toolkit. Hospitals and physicians have used a service line approach for decades to provide efficient, high-quality care to well-defined, patient populations: Patients with related diseases or conditions (e.g., cardiovascular, orthopedic). Patients in specific life stages…
‘Medicare for All’: What would it really mean for healthcare stakeholders?
“Medicare for All” would have varying impacts on hospitals, physicians and health plans but would be expected to cause financial hardship in the majority of cases.
How healthcare leaders can look beyond election years and business cycles to what really matters
Healthcare leaders should look beyond political and business cycles and focus on the issues that require their attention in 2020, says HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer.
The healthcare CFO of the future: How finance leaders are adapting to relentless change
As the healthcare industry acclimates to disruption, the CFO role steadily is becoming more strategic and expansive, as shown in the experiences of four health system finance leaders.