The Evolving Academic-Community Partnership: Part II – The Proactive Collaborator

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by Katherine Cwiek, Manager & Laura Zacchigna, Senior Associate

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Proactive collaboration allows AMCs and community counterparts to benefit from each other’s strengths, creating value that wasn’t necessarily sought or derived from more traditional partnering approaches. In Part I of this blog post on partnerships between community hospitals/systems and academic/major teaching centers (“AMCs”) we: Explored changes in AMC rationale for pursuing partnerships and partner attributes […]

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NFP Hospitals Financially Stronger Than 3 Years Ago

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The financial profiles of US not-for-profit hospitals are stronger than they were three years ago, says Moody’s Investors Service vice president Daniel Steingart. In his summary in Healthcare Quarterly, Steingart notes that “stronger financial footing will undoubtedly help hospitals mitigate the headwinds associated with changing and more stringent reimbursement models.” (“Not-For-Profit Hospitals: Financially Stronger as […]

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Moody’s Releases Preliminary FY 2015 Medians

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Moody’s Investors Service reported a continuation of “favorable operating performance” for not-for-profit and public hospitals, citing its preliminary FY 2015 medians.   “Strong revenue growth and strengthening profitability margins are due to gains in insurance coverage, volume increases, improved revenue cycle, expense management and the stabilizing of changes implemented by the Affordable Care Act (ACA),” […]

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The Evolving Academic-Community Partnership: Part I

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by Katherine Cwiek, Manager & Laura Zacchigna, Senior Associate

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Industry transformation requires major adaptations from healthcare organizations – to increase scale, enhance scope, and achieve differentiation, among others. Partnerships can be a key vehicle to facilitate and pursue these adaptations. Partnerships between academic and community hospitals/health systems are a unique sub-set of healthcare provider partnerships. Academic providers aligning with their community counterparts is, of […]

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Post-Acute Care Partners: A Make-or-Break Choice

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by Mark Dubow, Director

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Your selection of post-acute care (“PAC”) partners can make or break your value-based payment programs and care management initiatives. Even where fee-for-service is still dominant, having the right post-acute care partners can improve economic performance by reducing length of stay and minimizing acute care readmissions. Most health systems and hospitals do not own PAC facilities, […]

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