The Importance of Leadership in Turnarounds

Health care reform, an  aging population, fewer doctors and nurses, more expensive technology, lower reimbursements, increasing compliance costs and on and on. Healthcare providers will be facing an increasingly difficult environment over the next several years. Many will face the need to conduct a “turnaround” or “workout.” Here’s the scenario. Over some period of time a [...]

Tax-Exemptions Under Attack!

Spencer Tracy’s hometown, Wauwatosa, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin suburb has successfully challenged the tax-exemption, at least as it applies to property taxes, of local powerhouse Covenant Healthcare System. The strategy is interesting. Here’s what happened. The City assessed property taxes against one of Covenant’s ambulatory clinics asserting that it was a doctor’s office and not really an [...]