Acquiring distressed hospitals offers opportunities to expand market share, improve care quality, and enhance negotiation leverage with payers. Such acquisitions can prevent closures, maintain access to care, and create long-term value through strategic integrations that bolster efficiency and cost savings.
Evidence supports that SDOH interventions enhance outcomes and reduce costs, providing a foundation for effective health equity strategies.
Human error is the primary driver of security breaches, making human risk the biggest cyber vulnerability for companies today. Learn how to effectively address human risk and enhance cyber resilience, and shift focus towards cultivating a cybersecurity-centric culture and mindset among employees.
This insight proposes a GMO structure approach that ensures accountability and transparency of federal funds utilization. It can help governments improve responsiveness, combat fraud, waste, error, and abuse, and ensure recipients maximize grant dollars for the benefit of the public.
Puerto Rico’s hospitals face longstanding financial, operational, and human capital challenges. How can hospital administrators improve their financial position without relying on reimbursement increases? How can Operations Managers improve processes while enhancing healthcare workers’ engagement?
Puerto Rico’s health system continues to face longstanding funding issues, hospital financial struggles, and a shortage of healthcare workers. Fragmented as the health system is, we have a huge opportunity: to achieve true patient-centricity and fix the provider journey in the healthcare sector.
In recent years, most healthcare conversations have been sprinkled with terms like “health disparities,” “health inequalities,” or “health equity.” Per the World Health Organization (WHO), health equity is defined as the absence of unfair and avoidable or remediable differences in health among population groups.
Current Medicaid funding proposal does not resolve Puerto Rico’s program needs in the long-term. The island is at a disadvantage to meet service access which impacts health outcomes of a significant portion of our population.
In general, Puerto Rico hospitals score lower than the national average in quality metrics, based on reports from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare database. The difference is significant in metrics related to readmission, mortality, and Emergency Department (ED) care. In this Insight we analyze several of these outcomes and explore the possible reasons behind them.
Hospitals play a key role in the provision of health services to Puerto Rico citizens. In recent years they have been operating in a complicated environment where several industry trends have been hurting their profitability. That situation has only been aggravated by Hurricane María. Consolidation, both across the hospital sector but also vertically along the health system may help turn these trends around.
