Last in Line: Hospitals Brace for a Chilly 2023
Last in Line Hospitals saved hundreds of thousands of lives in the US during COVID, but at an horrendous cost in burnout both among its clinical and management staffs. As the country struggles to tame inflation post-COVID, hospitals find themselves losing tens of billions of dollars on operations, and will be “last in line” to readjust their rates to the exploding people and material cost of care. Hospitals have also been targets of unrelenting criticisms from academic, the press and policymakers. How can they regain their financial footing in this hostile atmosphere, and demonstrate the value they create for society