Weaver: Beyond The Numbers

An epic push-and-pull takes place every day in for-profit hospitals and healthcare facilities. Finance teams need to do their jobs to keep the business profitable, while medical professionals work to give patients the very best care possible. Today on Weaver: Beyond the Numbers, host Shelby Skrhak sits down with CPA Anna Stevens to discuss accounting struggles in the healthcare industry, specifically bridging the gap between departments that can seem at odds. Before Stevens joined Weaver as director for Weaver's healthcare industry practice, she worked for three years as the controller for an $80 million post-acute health care system, where she saw firsthand the communication gap between finance teams and clinicians. "We could spend an entire day talking about why these two teams struggle to work together," Stevens said. "It's communication. Yes, we need to communicate better, but how can we do that if we don't even know how to communicate with each other as different personality types?" Stevens began studyin