1. 3 top Beaumont execs to depart  Full story

2. US hospitals in scramble to make room amid rising COVID-19 case count, dwindling bed capacity  Full story

3. 7 updates on breakthrough COVID-19 cases  Full story

4. Are you in a staffing crisis? Exchange ideas and strategies with other health system leaders at The Broadmoor resort this fall. Register here.

5. New Hampshire HCA hospital interim CEO says he wasn't blindsided by physician exodus  Full story

6. Pay cut forces Health Partners to lay off 560 workers  Full story

7. US vaccination rate at early January level as new cases spike — 7 things to know  Full story

8. Tenet posts $120M profit in Q2  Full story

9. At a time when the patient population in the US is rapidly growing, and health systems are often unable to expand their care capacity without significant investments, the need to manage that capacity to its fullest is critical. Read more.

10. 7 recent hospital, health system CEO moves  Full story

11. 18 health systems back Biden's $5B gun violence prevention plan  Full story

12. US states ranked by suicide rate  Full story

13. Don't count on counting alone — Learn how hospitals are tapping new tech and best practices to prevent retained surgical sponges in the OR.

14. Hospitals, health systems mandating vaccines for workers  Full story 

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

• Test positivity rates
• Vaccines administered
• Population fully vaccinated

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