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Meet the Team: Patricia Dowbiggin
Robert Jones |Why Private Equity Is No Strategy for Struggling Hospitals
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
Ascendient Aids County After Hospital Closure (Video)
Robert Jones |When a rural hospital was closed unexpectedly, Ascendient stepped in to find a more sustainable option for local healthcare.
ChatGPT for Hospitals: 3 Burning Questions
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
Healthcare Consulting Partnerships: 3 Executive Testimonials
Robert Jones |Three healthcare leaders in a variety of roles discuss Ascendient’s value as a long-term partner.
Physician Alignment: Watch Out for Corporate Competitors
Brian Ackerman |Corporate buyers are snapping up physician practices at a record pace. Here are 4 implications for hospitals’ physician alignment strategy.
Rural Emergency Hospital Questions: Just the FAQs
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
Strategic Planning for Hospitals: Why Worry About the Surge
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
Healthcare Strategy: 4 Lessons from Amazon Care
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
What the 2023 IPPS Tells Us About CMS Priorities
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
How a Church-Based Clinic Is Making Primary Care More Accessible
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
Public Health Strategic Planning: Don’t Skimp on the SWOT
Brian Ackerman |A good SWOT analysis is foundational to public health strategic planning. Here’s a step-by-step guide for doing it right.
Corporations Are Betting Big on Value-Based Care
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
What Hospitals Need to Know About Medicare Advantage Growth
Nikki Murdoch |With CMS targeting 100% accountable care for Medicare enrollees, Medicare Advantage is poised for even faster growth.
Rural Healthcare Strategy Consulting: A CEO Testimonial
Robert Jones |Joann Anderson, a longtime rural healthcare CEO, on the role of values & mission alignment in a consulting relationship.
Hospital at Home: Answering the $30,000 Question
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
Why the Deafening Silence Around Medicare Insolvency?
Dawn Carter |Healthcare providers face a 6% reimbursement cut in the event of Medicare insolvency – a scenario that looks increasingly likely.
Hospital Community Benefit: How Do You Measure and Why Should You Care?
Dawn Carter |Hospital community benefit is tough to measure, but it’s worth the effort – both for more equitable healthcare and better hospital finances.
Formalizing Our Commitment to Rural Healthcare
Dawn Carter |The rural healthcare crisis is getting worse, with record hospital closures in 2020. Here’s what Ascendient is doing about it.
Re-Thinking Retail
Erin Nelson |As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
Reconfiguring Rural Healthcare Access
Dawn Carter |“Saving” hospitals isn’t the lone solution for struggling communities. Instead, think about prioritizing services for rural healthcare access.
Hospital at Home: A Valuable Tool for Transformation
Nikki Murdoch |A PHE waiver gave a huge boost to the Hospital at Home model, which shows great promise for advancing the “healthcare trifecta.”
Ascendient Healthcare Advisors Adds Three Senior-Level Positions
Dawn Carter |Meet the managing consultants joining Ascendient as part of the firm’s largest-ever expansion.
Four Things You Must Know Before the First M&A Conversation
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
The Maryland Model (Part 3): Lessons Learned from Maryland’s Payment Models
Rachel Mandel, MD |Maryland’s experiment with healthcare transformation has been encouraging but not perfect. Here are some of the biggest lessons learned.
The Maryland Model (Part 2): Understanding How Maryland’s Payment Models Work
Rachel Mandel, MD |In the second of our three-part series, we examine how Maryland’s unique payment models work – and what other states can learn.
The Maryland Model (Part 1): Understanding Maryland’s Medicare Waiver
Rachel Mandel, MD |Maryland’s Medicare waiver is getting national attention as CMS rolls out its new AHEAD model. Here are the essentials you need to know.
The Importance of Hospital and Health System Planning in an Uncertain Healthcare Environment
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
The Cardiovascular Services Revolution: How Will This Impact Your Bottom Line?
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
Why the Outcome of the Election Doesn’t Matter
Devastation of Site-Neutral Payment: October 2020 Update
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
Healthcare’s New Normal: Understanding the Importance and Impact of Virtual Care in a Post-COVID-19 World (Part 2)
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
Healthcare’s New Normal: Understanding the Importance and Impact of Virtual Care in a Post-COVID-19 World (Part 1)
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
Saving Rural Healthcare Access: Three Core Recommendations
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
Six Tips for Rapid Strategic Planning in Uncertain Times
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
The New Normal: How Healthcare Transformation Prepared Healthytown for a Pandemic
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
Community Health Assessments [VIDEO]
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
Ascendient’s Healthytown Model Forecasted Today’s Healthcare Transformation
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
The Importance of Payment and Care Delivery Transformation for the Benefit of Medicare
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
Primary Care Done Right – The Five Key Elements to Improving Primary Care
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
Healthcare Providers Facing Strong Financial Challenges
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
Accounting for Externalities in Strategic Planning [VIDEO]
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
Microhospitals: Evolving Regulations [VIDEO]
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
Six Critical Disciplines To Integrate For a Transformed Healthcare Delivery Model
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
Will Amazon Healthcare Work? [VIDEO]
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
Do Microhospitals Fit in HealthyTown? [VIDEO]
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
Understanding Microhospitals [VIDEO]
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
Provider Recruitment – Key Community Need Considerations [VIDEO]
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.
Medicare Wall [VIDEO]
As Amazon and others invest in healthcare delivery, traditional providers need to re-think their approach to consumers.