Strategic Planning

The sea change washing over healthcare is having a profound influence on the way mergers and acquisitions are inspired and configured.

Mark Claster, vice chair of the Board of Trustees at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, says that, to drive growth, hospitals need to focus on cost control, value-based medicine and managing populations.

Trends in healthcare premiums, plans and consumer utilization may indicate potential changes for the profits of health plans.

Eliminating a traditional management exercise as old as the budget may seem risky to hospital CFOs, but many businesses have done just that. Some say using a 19th-century tool to manage a 21st-century organization makes little sense.

The state of Washington finds itself in the middle of a trend that hardly anyone there ever saw coming: a wave of mergers and alliances between Catholic hospital chains and secular, taxpayer-supported community hospitals.

The median total compensation of physician executives increased 7 percent to $325,000 in 2013 from $305,000 two years ago, keeping pace with the salary growth rate in 2011, according to a survey from Cejka Executive Search.

Decisions about facility maintenance and repair of senior care structures may have traditionally been left to facility managers but executives should be leading the way.

How should healthcare executives measure the effectiveness of their marketing communications programs? There is no "one size fits all" formula, but your approach doesn't have to be complex.

Hospital risk sharing, integrated hospital systems and large group primary care practices are among the top factors linked with the formation of ACOs.

Florida's Baptist Health has devised a more efficient way to manage their medical devices and share risk, and it's helping them place real controls on capital costs.