Flexing your budget. Experts urge hospitals, systems to trade in their traditional budgeting process for a more dynamic and versatile model.
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Paul Barr
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Two base hospitals spared. Walter Reed among Defense assets slated to close.
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Higher standards. Fitch presses not-for-profits to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley rules.
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Lingering side effects. DRG changes called positive but other woes remain.
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Insured grapple with debt, too. Even those with coverage have problems: study.
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Hard to handle. New guidance helps boards navigate Sarbanes-Oxley.
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Healthcare's rosy outlook. S&P paints healthy financial picture for hospitals.
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Scrushy plots a comeback. As HealthSouth works hard to put a fraud scandal in the past, its acquitted founder studies how he can regain the company.
The jury ruled that Richard Scrushy is not guilty. So now HealthSouth's deposed leader wants to reclaim the company he founded, even if current management and investors don't want him. "I have a hard time believing he's going to get back in there," says Larry Scanlan, left, of Navigant Consulting. Others are more blunt: "We have less than zero support for his return," says a principal at the largest single owner of HealthSouth shares.
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Accreditation complication. Four Lovelace Sandia hospitals denied JCAHO nod.
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Brailer's HFMA advice. Attendees told to plan IT strategy.
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Old lessons learned. Longtime standards used to cut surgical infections.
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Collateral damage. For CFOs, effects of AHERF have been more indirect.
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Moody's: let's size up boards.
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A capital idea. Execs at forum predict spending plans will spotlight IT.
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Thinking big in Houston.
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Health Facility Merger↗
Fresenius to buy renal rival.
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Three hospitals befriend nurses.
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Hospitals, Rural↗
Gift wrapped. Hospitals, health systems work to make donations a larger portion of the bottom line.
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