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Archive for the ‘Health care’ Category

May 9th, 2008

Nonprofit Profile | When Will We Realize That Better Mental Health Equals Better Economic Health?

Nobody wears a ribbon to raise awareness about depression.
There are no 5Ks for bipolar disorder.
A-list actors aren’t participating in suicide-prevention telethons.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and while there are a wealth of nonprofits devoted to assisting those with mental illnesses, they have, for the most part, remained in the second tier of health advocacy […]

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April 22nd, 2008

Missing the Mission | Another Example of ADD by a Nonprofit Board?

The headline says that a bankruptcy trustee of Saint Vincent’s Catholic Medical Centers of New York is suing the law firm that handled the nonprofit’s Chapter 11 matters for legal malpractice. The story behind the headline is that, yet again, another nonprofit board may have been asleep at the switch.
According to the New York Law […]

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April 18th, 2008

Nonprofit Profile | The Sadly Necessary Effort to Reduce an Awful Crime

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and if I loathed all who commit that horrid crime before parenthood, it absolutely incenses me know that I have two daughters of my own. The National Sexual Violence Resource Center was created by the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape just eight years ago, but thanks to funding from the […]

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April 14th, 2008

How to … Attract the Kind of Government Attention You Don’t Want

Talk about damned if you do, damned if you don’t: The nonprofit leadership crisis exists, in part, because the next generation of leaders sees a bleak future in terms of personal compensation and is leaving the sector for greener pastures. Meanwhile, salaries for nonprofit hospital executives are so high that a Massachusetts legislator has proposed […]

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April 7th, 2008

The Latest Threat to Nonprofits: Too Much Success

Nonprofit hospitals are enjoying very healthy bottom lines, and lawmakers are taking note.

Riding gains from investment portfolios and enjoying the pricing power that came from a decade of mergers, many nonprofit hospitals have seen earnings soar in recent years. The combined net income of the 50 largest nonprofit hospitals jumped nearly eight-fold to $4.27 billion […]

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March 27th, 2008

Mining the Mission | An Ivy Takes Its Head Out of Its Monied Sand

Nonprofit and public interest lawyers aren’t the only badly needed professionals who leave school struggling under a large debt load and facing insufficient salaries to ease the burden. Physicians who graduate med school and want to enter general practice or primary care find that salaries leg behind those of such high-profile specialties as plastic surgery […]

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March 21st, 2008

Nonprofit Profile | Filling Out the Only NCAA Bracket That Matters

We’re in the second day of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament’s first round, which means we’ve already seen lots of shots of well-dressed coaches pacing frantically along sidelines, gesticulating wildly, yelling out plays, berating officials, and exhorting their players.
You’d be forgiven, especially if you’re not a sports fan, for yawning, silently cursing these arrogant blowhards, […]

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March 9th, 2008

Notes, Follow-Ups, and Reminders | Overhead, Taxes, Nonprofit Hospitals, Retaining Talent, Interest Rates, RSS

Wake up, America: Running an effective nonprofit takes more scratch than you think.
Size does matter: Even the most wee nonprofits now have to check in with the IRS.
Nonprofit hospitals get a reason — albeit a small one — to breathe a little bit easier.
Even more on the talent-retention challenge/crisis/fill in your favorite synonym here.
A novel proposal […]

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February 22nd, 2008

Nonprofit Profile | Seeking Good Health for All Americans

According to the federal Office of Minority Health, heart disease afflicts African Americans at a disproportionately high rate:
African American adults are less likely to be diagnosed with coronary heart disease, however they are more likely to die from heart disease. Although African American adults are 40% more likely to have high blood pressure, they are […]

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