COVID-19 has not only accelerated dramatic shifts within the healthcare industry, but it has also become a catalyst for change in workforce strategies. In this special report, McDermott Partner Michael Peregrine offers...more
3/15/2022
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With COVID-19 applying financial pressures on hospitals and health systems of all sizes and geographic reach, the road to recovery presents a variety of challenges. However, the need to restructure and address financial and...more
5/26/2020
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The extraordinary pandemic-based financial challenges impacting hospitals, health systems and other providers as a result of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) should prompt boards to re-evaluate focus on their duty to monitor the...more
Fifth in a series of updates on how the pandemic is informing basic elements of governance.
For most sophisticated health systems, the operative assumption is that, without regard to the pandemic, their boards have adopted a...more
Fourth in a series of updates on how the pandemic is implicating basic elements of governance.
General counsel should be alert to emergency actions that states are taking to provide temporary relief for certain board...more
The extraordinary consequences of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis calls healthcare boards to exercise greater engagement with both the affairs of the company and the portfolio of the executive team. Click to access 10 key...more
Healthcare providers facing emergency requests from government agencies in response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis — including critical issues such as transfers of COVID-19 patients, opening closed facilities and...more
4/1/2020
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A recent essay from the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) provides useful guidance on how boards may prepare themselves for risks associated with external...more
3/17/2020
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