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Kaufman, Hall & Associates, Inc. helps hospitals and health systems of all types and sizes to achieve sustainable strategic financial success.

Through data-driven analysis and guided by the fundamental principles of corporate finance, Kaufman Hall’s best practice approach enables clients to consistently generate solid results. The cornerstone of Kaufman Hall's approach is the integration of strategic, financial, and capital planning.

Kaufman Hall is an independent firm that works exclusively in healthcare and has done so since its founding in 1985. The firm's clients range from small community hospitals to some of the nation’s largest health systems and academic medical centers.

Kaufman Hall has been recognized by Thomson Reuters as the country’s top financial advisor to healthcare organizations in each of the last six years. Kaufman Hall offers high-value services and products, a description of which follows.

Consulting areas include:

Strategic Advisory Services, including strategic options identification and implementation; integrated strategic financial planning; strategic facility planning; growth strategy development; market and competitive analyses; program and service line planning and execution; and physician strategy development and resource planning.
Debt and Derivatives-Related Financial Advisory Services, including tax-exempt and taxable debt transactions; interest rate swap and other derivative transactions, capital structure and capital formulation strategy development; transaction management; and ratings process coordination.
Strategic Financial and Capital Planning Services, including integrated strategic financial and capital plans; hospital and health system credit analyses; capital position and debt capacity analyses; business planning for specific strategic initiatives; and financial projections and risk/sensitivity analyses.
Capital Allocation and Decision Making Services, including redesign and implementation of a best practice capital decision making process; design of project evaluation criteria; strategic investment portfolio analysis; and design and implementation of capital funding and tracking systems.
Merger, Acquisition, Divestiture, and Joint Venture Services, including strategic options assessment; joint venture, merger, acquisition, and divestiture transaction planning and strategy development and implementation; real estate evaluation and divestiture services; and valuations and fairness opinions.

To support an organization’s best practice market planning, financial planning, capital allocation and management, and budgeting processes, Kaufman Hall offers the ENUFF Software Suite^®. The ENUFF Software Suite is healthcare’s only fully integrated finance-based software solution designed to solve the financial management and strategic problems faced by healthcare organizations nationwide. The Suite includes:

Market Advisor ^® for market analysis, utilization projections, and strategic planning.
Budget Advisor ^® for operating budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and productivity analysis.

Hospital Advisor ^® for long-range financial and capital planning.
Capital Advisor ^® for capital budgeting, requisitioning, and tracking.

Physician Advisor ^® for strategic, financial, and capital planning related to physicians, groups, faculty practice plans, and medical staff.

Each product in the software suite enables better informed decisions by delivering accurate and reliable strategic, operating, and financial data. As an integrated set of tools, the benefits are compounded - each decision can be made in the context of overall organizational competitiveness - from market strategies to financing strategies. Over time, with improved planning and analytical integrity, the result is enhanced financial results, and a more competitive organization.More than 1,300 ENUFF Software Suite licenses are in place nationwide.

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