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Data-Driven Decision Making
Executive Insight (p. 29)
2/20/2012
Aligning and analyzing data with the goals of your enterprise will improve clinical efficacy and bottom line results.
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Executive Insight (p. 29)
2/20/2012
Aligning and analyzing data with the goals of your enterprise will improve clinical efficacy and bottom line results.
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Silver Cross to Sell Dialysis Clinics for $30M
Crain's
12/20/2011
Silver Cross Health System in Joliet plans to unload three dialysis clinics for $30 million to a company that specializes in the field, as hospitals continue to exit the low-margin business.
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Crain's
12/20/2011
Silver Cross Health System in Joliet plans to unload three dialysis clinics for $30 million to a company that specializes in the field, as hospitals continue to exit the low-margin business.
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Tatum Promotes Nancy Falls to National Managing Partner, Healthcare
Business Wire
11/14/2011
Tatum recently announced the promotion of Nancy Falls to national managing partner of its healthcare practice. In this role, she will be responsible for growing the healthcare practice and working across the firm to drive Tatum’s market penetration within the industry.
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Business Wire
11/14/2011
Tatum recently announced the promotion of Nancy Falls to national managing partner of its healthcare practice. In this role, she will be responsible for growing the healthcare practice and working across the firm to drive Tatum’s market penetration within the industry.
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Detox Clinic Fighting Norwegian American in Court
Crain's
11/1/2011
Norwegian American Hospital is trying to kick out a longtime provider of drug and alcohol detox treatment at the Humboldt Park institution, an apparent cost-saving move that is facing stiff legal obstacles.
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Crain's
11/1/2011
Norwegian American Hospital is trying to kick out a longtime provider of drug and alcohol detox treatment at the Humboldt Park institution, an apparent cost-saving move that is facing stiff legal obstacles.
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Cutting Hospital Costs Without Cutting Staff
HFMA
10/5/2011
Virtually every industry is still feeling the pain of the recession—still cutting costs and making workforce reductions. Yet these cuts often fail to generate real bottom-line results. Such a trend cannot continue without serious repercussions on quality of care.
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HFMA
10/5/2011
Virtually every industry is still feeling the pain of the recession—still cutting costs and making workforce reductions. Yet these cuts often fail to generate real bottom-line results. Such a trend cannot continue without serious repercussions on quality of care.
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CFO Business-Conditions Index Slips
CFOworld
9/12/2011
Survey that Tatum does monthly with executives of mid-sized firms shows appraisal edging down for August after a one-month uptick brightens slightly looking two months ahead.
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CFOworld
9/12/2011
Survey that Tatum does monthly with executives of mid-sized firms shows appraisal edging down for August after a one-month uptick brightens slightly looking two months ahead.
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July Survey of Finance Execs Showed Uptick, but Financing and Hiring Worries
CFO World
8/10/2011
Tatum report, compiled just before recent market shocks, indicated underlying concerns about employment and capital availability, though overall index was slightly higher.
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CFO World
8/10/2011
Tatum report, compiled just before recent market shocks, indicated underlying concerns about employment and capital availability, though overall index was slightly higher.
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Tatum’s Chicago Practice Expands Adds Three New Top-Notch Professionals to Strengthen Healthcare, Accounting and Financial Services Practices
BusinessWire
8/9/2011
Tatum, a national professional services firm, recently announced that three key senior financial professionals have been brought on board in the Chicago office to reinforce and help grow both the healthcare and accounting and financial services practices.
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BusinessWire
8/9/2011
Tatum, a national professional services firm, recently announced that three key senior financial professionals have been brought on board in the Chicago office to reinforce and help grow both the healthcare and accounting and financial services practices.
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Health Care Law?
Investor's Business Daily
7/11/2011
As the deadline for compliance with the new health care law nears in January 2014, a survey by executive services firm Tatum says that coverage adjustments for the changeover haven't been a top priority for CFOs of middle market companies.
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Investor's Business Daily
7/11/2011
As the deadline for compliance with the new health care law nears in January 2014, a survey by executive services firm Tatum says that coverage adjustments for the changeover haven't been a top priority for CFOs of middle market companies.
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CFOs Avoid Health Overhaul Review: Study
The Wall Street Journal
5/16/2011
While there is a broad consensus that the healthcare overhaul will add significant expenses, a real danger exists that CFOs aren't doing enough to educate themselves about the operational intricacies of the year-old law.
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The Wall Street Journal
5/16/2011
While there is a broad consensus that the healthcare overhaul will add significant expenses, a real danger exists that CFOs aren't doing enough to educate themselves about the operational intricacies of the year-old law.
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Private Equity Funds Are Changing the Face of U.S. Hospitals
Becker's Hospital Review
5/2/2011
Private equity funds roared into many hospital executives' consciousness last year with two huge purchases of non-profit hospitals, and they are continuing to make their presence felt.
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Becker's Hospital Review
5/2/2011
Private equity funds roared into many hospital executives' consciousness last year with two huge purchases of non-profit hospitals, and they are continuing to make their presence felt.
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Four Hospital Action Items For 2011
The Street
5/2/2011
Hospitals today face historic levels of economic pressure and broad areas of multi-dimensional uncertainty. It seems that never before has the future been less predictable, unstable or more complex.
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The Street
5/2/2011
Hospitals today face historic levels of economic pressure and broad areas of multi-dimensional uncertainty. It seems that never before has the future been less predictable, unstable or more complex.
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Best of Both Worlds? Practice Management Companies Make Push for Primary Care Practices
Modern Medicine
4/10/2011
A spree of specialty- and hospital-based practice acquisitions in 2010 by national corporations such as IPC and Mednax may have some physicians wondering whether the days of the publicly traded practice management companies, similar to those in the 1980s and '90s, will return.
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Modern Medicine
4/10/2011
A spree of specialty- and hospital-based practice acquisitions in 2010 by national corporations such as IPC and Mednax may have some physicians wondering whether the days of the publicly traded practice management companies, similar to those in the 1980s and '90s, will return.
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"The Race is On" for Hospitals to Consolidate, Integrate Care
Becker's Hospital Review
3/8/2011
More and more hospitals are involved in various transactions as part of their integration efforts to prepare for accountable care organizations.
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Becker's Hospital Review
3/8/2011
More and more hospitals are involved in various transactions as part of their integration efforts to prepare for accountable care organizations.
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5 Tips for Leading a Hospital Through a Merger or Sale
Becker's Hospital Review
12/20/2010
Irwin Hurn, a partner at Tatum who has served as CEO, COO, and CFO for several hospitals, shares five tips for leading a hospital through the uncertainties associated with a merger or sale.
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Becker's Hospital Review
12/20/2010
Irwin Hurn, a partner at Tatum who has served as CEO, COO, and CFO for several hospitals, shares five tips for leading a hospital through the uncertainties associated with a merger or sale.
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How Hospitals Can Cut Medical Liability Costs
Healthleaders Media
12/13/2010
Medical liability costs continue to grow for hospitals, but the secret to controlling this isn't necessarily found in the financials. It's cultural. "The reality is there's little finance can do directly to reduce those costs," says Jeff Rooney, Tatum partner and interim CFO at Saint Agnes Medical Center in Fresno, CA.
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Healthleaders Media
12/13/2010
Medical liability costs continue to grow for hospitals, but the secret to controlling this isn't necessarily found in the financials. It's cultural. "The reality is there's little finance can do directly to reduce those costs," says Jeff Rooney, Tatum partner and interim CFO at Saint Agnes Medical Center in Fresno, CA.
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9 Thoughts on Outsourcing: When To Outsource and How to Do it Successfully
Becker's Hospital Review
10/15/2010
In efforts to protect their bottom line, many hospital CEOs are turning to outsourcing various services, including hospitalist units, nursing staff or food services, as a cost-cutting measure. Irwin Hurn, a hospital executive and partner at executive services firm Tatum, says contracting services should depend on what resources and expertise are already immediately available to a hospital.
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Becker's Hospital Review
10/15/2010
In efforts to protect their bottom line, many hospital CEOs are turning to outsourcing various services, including hospitalist units, nursing staff or food services, as a cost-cutting measure. Irwin Hurn, a hospital executive and partner at executive services firm Tatum, says contracting services should depend on what resources and expertise are already immediately available to a hospital.
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