1. Federal vaccination mandate begins for healthcare workers in 25 states  Full story

2. Where COVID-19 hospitalizations are up, down and flat  Full story

3. 'An invisible HHS secretary': Critics come after Xavier Becerra for pandemic absence  Full story

4. Mercy General’s CxO leadership shares strategy for achieving service line excellence. Learn more 

5. Los Angeles braces for Super Bowl amid omicron surge  Full story

6. 5 states requiring boosters for healthcare staff  Full story

7. Incomplete identity management sabotages seamless experiences and disrupts loyalty. Learn the CDP data unification strategies shaping new hospital business models.

8. CoxHealth CEO Steve Edwards' leadership approach: 'Distort nothing'  Full story

9. Next variant could be more transmissible than omicron, WHO says  Full story

10. Cleveland Clinic served record-setting number of patients in 2021  Full story

11. Telepsychiatry is no longer a "nice-to-have." See why more hospitals are rolling out 24/7 emergency telepsychiatry programs here.

12. Hospital-at-home strategies freed up 3,300 beds, Mayo Clinic says  Full story

13. Curb costs or get fined, state tells Mass General Brigham  Full story

14. Why 2 pharmacists left their roles  Full story

15. Daily COVID-19 stats, state-by-state:

• Test positivity rates
• Population fully vaccinated
• Hospitalizations
• Deaths

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