Identifying your organizational direction is a key activity within any strategic planning process. The components of organizational direction describe your hospital or system’s reason for existence and frames where you wish to be in the future. In our era of market instability and post-reform adjustment, organizational direction can help provide the clarity your system needs […]
Strategic planning for health care organizations is more important than ever before given the uncertainties about health care reform and rapidly changing market dynamics. In the past, strategic plans have been used to identify growth opportunities and prioritize capital needs; however, in the post-reform era, growth does not necessarily mean expansion, but rather integrating high-quality […]
At a recent ACHE cluster, the question was asked “How do you match your organization’s investments in innovation and integration [to meet imperatives of health reform, industry transformation] with the state of development and pace of change in your specific market?” It is critical to synchronize how fast and in what way your organization pursues […]
Hospital merger and acquisition volumes increased 20% from Q2 to Q3 2013, according to a recent press release by Irving Levin Associates. The 24 deals announced in Q3 represent the highest quarterly deal volumes in the last four quarters of activity, indicating that while hospital merger and acquisition activity may have peaked at 94 deals […]
The shortage of primary care physicians nationally is one factor contributing to the inappropriate use of hospital emergency rooms. While some primary care physicians have added open access slots to their schedules, others have closed their practice to new patients. Many do not have evening or weekend hours and have limited numbers of same-day appointments. […]