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If demographics are destiny, meet your new performance standard

September 20, 2011 | Expert Perspective | Health Care Advisory Board

With a growing reliance on public payers, slowing price growth, and mounting expenses, the typical hospital could face a sharp drop in operating margin across 10 years if nothing is done to manage these pressures. Learn how to create a path back to prosperity.
Bridging the finance-HR divide to cut benefits costs

March 11, 2010 | Expert Perspective | Financial Leadership Council

The Financial Leadership Council's and the Employee Health Benefits Collaborative’s research reveals three key reasons that hospitals are failing to make headway against rising benefits costs.
10 indicators of potential excess administrative overhead

February 18, 2010 | Expert Perspective | HR Investment Center

The HR Investment Center outlines indicators of excess administrative overhead, culled from hundreds of interviews with leading hospital executives and industry experts.

Bending the Expense Growth Curve

April 26, 2012 | Study | Health Care Advisory Board

Review best practices for standardizing clinical resource utilization, boosting labor productivity, and building flexible labor pools.
Running on Medicare Margins

September 16, 2011 | Study | Health Care Advisory Board

This study explores the major forces shaping hospital margins across the next decade and provides best practices for developing a comprehensive margin improvement strategy.
Flattening the Supply Cost Growth Curve: Ten Steps for Achieving Sustainable Preference Item Savings

January 13, 2010 | Study | Financial Leadership Council

We outline the precise implementation order and active ingredients for success of an efficacious preference item management program.

Cost of Turnover Calculator

January 1, 2011 | Tool | HR Investment Center

Provides an estimate of institution-specific cost of turnover for a specific employee, a type of position, an individual unit, or the entire organization.
Inpatient Margin Scenario Planner

September 16, 2011| Tool | Health Care Advisory Board

Generate institution-specific five- and 10-year outlooks for payer mix, case mix, volume, occupancy, and inpatient operating margins; useful for exploring the sensitivity of margin projections to changes in underlying market forces.
Medicare Financial Benchmark Generator

December 2, 2010 | Tool | Cardiovascular Roundtable

Provides user-defined, peer-group benchmarks for key inpatient utilization and financial metrics.

The crossroads of hospital supply chain management: Outsource to third parties or invest in an autonomous infrastructure?

August 31, 2010 | Video | Financial Leadership Council

Kyle Rose discusses growing interest in bringing the supply chain function into the hospital and innovative trends that facilitate this movement.
Capturing return on wellness initiatives

August 3, 2010 | Video | HR Investment Center

Hear results from our heart and vascular integration benchmarking survey and find out why nearly half of your peers maintain a collocated service line.
Building a highly productive nursing organization

October 18, 2010 | Multimedia | Nursing Executive Center

This interactive multimedia presentation will help you access the information most relevant to your organization’s most pressing productivity challenges.

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