Providers that embrace benchmarks from outside of healthcare and move toward improved non-clinical spend management will unlock the resilience, innovation, and possibilities needed to stay strong in the years ahead.
Hospitals have an opportunity to make strategic changes now that can better position both their organizations and their patients for what’s ahead. Here’s what to expect and where to focus next.
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
There is no question the pressures are heavy, but there is also an opportunity for organizations to rethink how they deliver care, how they support the people they serve, and how they invest limited resources.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act introduced a new $50 billion fund to offer rural hospitals a financial lifeline. One expert cautions that this effort will fail to address systemic challenges without transparency, clear metrics and long-term infrastructure investment strategies.