Improving Financial and Operations Performance: A Healthcare Leader’s Guide

The increasing pressure on the bottom line of healthcare provider organizations requires leaders who understand and can adeptly apply the basic principles of effective financial and operations management. To be successful in today’s environment, leaders must simultaneously improve quality and service while reducing expense. Improving Financial and Operations Performance: A Healthcare Leader’s Guide is a collection of proven effective tips, tools, and techniques accumulated from real-world challenges and lessons learned, logically organized to provide a straightforward approach to planning, assessing, managing, and monitoring a business enterprise to improve profitability. This book provides a clear, step-by-step “how to” approach for both new and experienced leaders seeking a leg up in tackling the myriad of common and complex challenges they are facing, including conducting a budget variance analysis, managing labor and nonlabor productivity and expense, performing a comprehensive financial condition analysis, growing profitable volume and market share, developing an effective business case for improving quality, and evaluating the financial impact of a future project. Written for clinical and administrative leaders working in the trenches, it provides practical and applicable tools with relevant, real-world, and replicable case study examples. The essential value of Improving Financial and Operations Performance: A Healthcare Leader’s Guide is improving decision-making effectiveness, enhancing operations efficiency know-how, and developing strong financial management acumen to overcome the challenges in today’s healthcare environment.