GUEST BLOG
By John Yeary, CEO, Freestone Medical Center
The holidays are a time for giving and gathering. However, for hospitals, community involvement and giving back should be year-round priorities....
Supply costs are one of the fastest-growing cost centers for hospitals. Yet 18% track no supply chain metrics at all, according to a recent industry survey. As health supply chain...
It is time to think of IT differently—not as a business function but as a business partner with the same business objectives as your healthcare organization as a whole. That...
Metaphors commonly used to describe community hospitals underscore their importance to the regions they serve. They’ve been called economic engines, cornerstones of the community, and, by Forbes, the “financial glue”...
By guest author Paul Lee, Senior Partner & Founder, Strategic Health Care
National policy in support of rural healthcare has been lacking for more than a decade. Critical access hospitals...
Asked to rank their most pressing concerns, most hospital CEOs and leaders put financial challenges at the top of the list, followed by governmental mandates and personnel shortages. In deeper...
Vital to an organization’s future, a business plan is a framework outlining the steps for financial and operational success. For many hospitals, this process has occurred at five-year intervals tied...
Ever-expanding in complexity, cost reports influence current and future reimbursement levels for your hospital. Think of a cost report as an annual report with numbers instead of words. Far-reaching in...
Community hospitals can strengthen bonds with physicians through proactive engagement that is genuine and mutually beneficial. Foremost, it’s optimal to consider the physician point of view, from their clinical practice...
