10/20/2024
Beckers has a new article out about healthcare executive pay. Incentives are largely based on quality metrics and patient experience. Check out the article.
Healthcare executive pay jumps 4.6%: 5 notes
Healthcare executive pay is growing amid financial challenges, high turnover and increased scrutiny on executive compensation packages, according to a survey from SullivanCotter.
10/14/2024
Join us Monday, October 21 at 5:30pm for the patient safety documentary 'The Pitch: Patient Safety the Next Generation. Followed by a panel discussion including our alum Trudy Marks ('19); Tina Galloway; and Elise Guimont-Blackburn.
Event is free - registration required - use QR code below.
02/13/2024
Go Fund me as a way to afford medical care in US. Take a few minutes to read about this area of healthcare finance.
GoFundMe Has Become a Health Care Utility - KFF Health News
Resorting to crowdfunding to pay medical bills has become so routine, in some cases health professionals recommend it.
06/20/2023
Great learning opportunity for health care administrators in training. "The union contends that during contract negotiations, Ascension management has not offered adequate solutions for safe staffing protections and nurse recruitment and retention, which nurses say is critical to ensuring patient safety."
Ascension sets contingency plans ahead of nurses strike
Ascension hospitals in Texas and Kansas are preparing for a planned one-day nurses strike June 27, organized by the National Nurses Organizing Committee. Union
06/15/2023
Congratulations to Solange Benjamin ('22) on her advancement to Fellow status in ACHE. Wonderful accomplishment. Who is next?
06/06/2023
In the MHA program we talk about and develop an understanding of the business of healthcare. Becker's has a new article about NFP hospital spending on community care - check it out.
"Nonprofit hospitals' charity care spending fell from $6.65 million in 2012 to $6.36 million in 2019, a drop of about 4.4 percent. Nonprofit hospitals' allocation of profits toward cash reserves rather than charity care has important policy implications."
As nonprofit hospitals' cash reserves grew, charity care spending fell
Study finds cash reserves of hospitals grew between 2012 and 2019, but nonprofit hospitals decreased spending on charity care while for-profit hospitals increas
04/14/2023
Join us Tuesday at 6pm for the new FixIt Documentary, Duke Auditorium.