Over the past several years, small community hospitals in rural areas across the United States have been struggling to stay afloat. Yoakum Community Hospital was no...
Asked to rank their most pressing concerns, most hospital CEOs and leaders put financial challenges at the top of the list, followed by governmental mandates and personnel shortages. In deeper...
Community Hospital Corporation (CHC) understands that community-based hospitals are vital assets to those they serve. That’s why we provide resources to strengthen and support community-based hospitals, including flexible, individualized...
Leaders of ailing hospitals usually realize there’s room for improvement but often don’t recognize the severity of their situation until it’s too late. It is often external stakeholders or bondholders...
Many hospitals come to Community Hospital Corporation (CHC) in critical condition. Others come to optimize their health. Great Plains Health (GPHealth) in North Platte, Nebraska, is...
When the board of trustees at Hillcrest Health System began analyzing its strategic direction, they engaged Community Hospital Corporation (CHC) because of the firm’s direct and ongoing...
Community Hospital in McCook, Nebraska, previously purchased its supplies and services from a nationwide hospital network. As part of the network’s supply contracting company and group purchasing organization...
When it comes to receiving payment for services rendered, hospitals are squeezed from two directions. First, declining reimbursement rates mean hospitals collect only a fraction of what...
Vital to an organization’s future, a business plan is a framework outlining the steps for financial and operational success. For many hospitals, this process has occurred at five-year intervals tied...
Ever-expanding in complexity, cost reports influence current and future reimbursement levels for your hospital. Think of a cost report as an annual report with numbers instead of words. Far-reaching in...
