Back to Basics
The strategy for surviving the economic downturn? Invest in core strengths, scrutinize staffing and operations, seize partnership opportunities—and get down to work.
Read More

Cover Story:
Reinventing the CNO
Service line development? Financial analysis? Pharmacy services? The role of chief nursing officer has morphed into much more than nursing.
Service line development? Financial analysis? Pharmacy services? The role of chief nursing officer has morphed into much more than nursing.
Virtual Solutions
Consolidating servers—or even moving entire departments off-site—can help hospitals stretch their technology resources further.
Consolidating servers—or even moving entire departments off-site—can help hospitals stretch their technology resources further.
Insecure Bonds
Turbulence in the bond financing market means significant changes in the way hospitals relate to their investors.
Turbulence in the bond financing market means significant changes in the way hospitals relate to their investors.
Essential and Expensive
Patient demand for intensive care services continues to rise—but ICUs cost a ton of money. Here’s how some providers are making intensive care worth their financial while.
Patient demand for intensive care services continues to rise—but ICUs cost a ton of money. Here’s how some providers are making intensive care worth their financial while.

Mission Possible
Mission statements are often mocked for being uselessly generic. Random mission statement generators (really) can spit out any combination of "trust" and "teamwork" and "patient needs." Yet many real mission statements adopted by hospitals and healthcare systems are seriously specific, with careful and clear thought given to who should be served, how they should be served, and how management and the medical staff should work together toward those ends.
Send to a Friend


