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Nonprofit hospitals should re-think endowment management
Nonprofit hospitals and other organizations with foundation endowments can learn some lessons from the recession and other past fiscal crises, according to "Rethinking the Management of Foundation... Read more...
AHA seeks tax form adjustment for community benefit reporting
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is pressing the Internal Revenue Service to improve the new hospital community benefit reporting form (Schedule H for Form 990). New research has found that... Read more...
Healthcare fundraising will require entrepreneurial, global approaches
Galas and luncheons have historically been fundraising mainstays for nonprofit hospitals and health systems, but many nonprofits have found these and other traditional avenues to provide diminishing... Read more...
Not-for-profits could have a bleak year
Two key credit ratings services--Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings--believe the outlook for the not-for-profit healthcare sector will remain negative this year, says the Healthcare... Read more...
Nonprofit execs in Florida don't feel the pinch
Chief executives at nonprofit hospitals around Tampa Bay, Fla., fetch well above the national average in compensation, reports the St. Petersburg Times. Average CEO compensation at 14 nonprofit... Read more...
Provena Covenant's tax exemption in jeopardy again
For years now, Provena Covenant Medical Center has battled to keep its property tax exemption, after the Illinois Department of Revenue's Brian Hamer ruled that the facility's charity care... Read more...
S&P downgrades for non-profit hospitals rise sharply
Standard & Poor's has taken a meat-axe to the credit ratings of not-for-profit hospitals of late. During the first six months of 2008, credit downgrades for non-profit hospitals and health... Read more...
Readers share thoughts on not-for-profit ratings
Last week in this space, I said that while I understand why Wall Street ratings firms focus... Read more...
