224 hospital benchmarks | 2018

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Hospitals across the nation compete in a number of ways, including on quality of care and price, and many use benchmarking to determine the top priorities for improvement. The continuous benchmarking process allows hospital executives to see how their organizations stack up against regional competitors as well as national leaders.

For the seventh year, Becker’s Hospital Review has collected benchmarks related to some of the most important day-to-day areas hospital executives oversee: quality, patient satisfaction, staffing, utilization, finance, affiliations, compensation and health IT.

 

8 key strategies for improving a hospital’s margins

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As healthcare shifts toward value-based care, hospitals are looking for new ways to improve quality without unnecessarily increasing the cost of care.

“We think less about cost cutting and more about margin improvement,” says Allen Miller, CEO of COPE Health Solutions. “Folks are going to be more successful taking a strategic approach and focusing on improving margins by taking risks and building the type of infrastructure that will support value based contracts through which they take financial risk instead of the traditional cost-cutting approach.”

Here are some key strategies for financial success: