10/26/2020· Healthcare Facilities - Hospitals
Flex Budgets: A Quick Guide For Hospitals
By: Sahel Shwayhat, MBA, FACHE
Hospitals, like most businesses, have budgets. While they all track their performance closely against that budget at the organizational level, many fail to do so with the same rigor at the cost center level, mainly due to lack of dependable reports. In this article, I will explain what flex budgeting is, how it is calculated, and why using it helps the organization.
10/21/2020· Employment
Expert Witness' Checklist When Reviewing An Employer's Handling Of Workforce / Employee Complaints
By: Aaron T. Olson
Clients need to know what an expert witness does in the review of an employer’s handling of a workforce complaint. The complaint could be regarding discrimination, sexual harassment, misconduct, or retaliation, any of which could potentially lead to the accused’s termination. An expert who has the experience of conducting employment investigations will be able to assess if the employer’s handling of the workforce complaint, actions or omissions was satisfactory or unsatisfactory.
10/21/2020· Construction
COVID-19 Claim Management on Construction Projects
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the internal and external project execution environments. The pandemic has caused impacts of varying degrees to nearly every aspect of projects involving the activity of people. Ordinary practices in the creation of project documentation are robust and are utilized to support the analysis of construction claims. Although project productivity losses may be demonstrable, providing compelling evidence and proof that the losses were caused by the pandemic may not be as easy to demonstrate.
10/7/2020· Refrigeration - Cooling Systems
Evaporator Leak Mitigation By Suction Control Valve Selection And Operation
By: James Caylor, PE
Evaporator leaks expose plant personnel to risk of ammonia contact and require maintenance intervention since refrigeration control valves used for inlet flows (liquid and hot gas) can automatically stop flow, but similar valves used for outlet flows (suction and refrigerant defrost condensate) cannot stop flow backwards from the suction line into a damaged evaporator and thus into the conditioned space.
9/29/2020· Appraisal & Valuation
Part 2: AIRA Issues New Standards for Distressed Business Valuation
By: Michael Pakter
In this second article on AIRA Standards, the author discusses unique issues valuing distressed companies. These include the standard of value used, the premise of value, the intended use of the valuation, and cost of capital.
9/24/2020· Healthcare Facilities - Hospitals
Hospital Cost Accounting: Million Dollar Decisions Should Not Be Based on “Guesstimates”
By: Sahel Shwayhat, MBA, FACHE
All well-run businesses use data to drive their decisions. The higher the stakes, the more accuracy they demand from their data. Hospitals are businesses, even not-for-profit ones, and should conduct their operations like any other business. The area where hospitals lag far behind other businesses is in cost accounting.
9/22/2020· Postal Services
Mail-In Voting: Documentation Of Mail Between Voters And Election Boards
By: Peter Wade
USPS technology affords every customer the ability to document the date that mail addressed to them is available for delivery. The Postal Service takes an image of each standard sized piece of letter mail that will be delivered to every address in the United States every day.
9/16/2020· Education & Schools
Getting Students Back To School During COVID-19
By: Ned Einstein
Because of social distancing, classrooms and schoolbuses can only be filled to one-fourth of their capacities. This constraint alone requires that a broad range of dramatic changes be made in order for our children to return to physical school without placing out entire population at greater risk than we already are.
9/4/2020· Emergency Medicine
COVID-19: The Worst Is Yet To Come
By: Dr. Sajid Khan
We are in the midst of a global pandemic the likes of which we have never before seen in our lifetime. Every day a new record high number of cases and number of deaths is reached. While the number affected physically, emotionally, and economically spirals out of control, here is something that will serve as a gut check: these will be remembered as the good old days.
8/19/2020· Radiology
Radiology Volumes Are Different From What Finance Is Reporting. Why Does That Keep Happening?
By: Sahel Shwayhat, MBA, FACHE
Many of us who have worked in hospitals have been there; you are in a meeting with Finance, and their handouts have what is supposed to be Radiology volumes, but they are different from what Radiology’s internal reports show. So, whose numbers are right?
