Listen to highlights of key stories in our daily briefing podcast. 

1. Physician shortage forces Arizona hospital to shut down ICU  Full story

2. Mass General Brigham moves forward with $2B in capital projects  Full story 

3. OSF HealthCare to add 15th hospital  Full story

4. How Intermountain Health and Henry Ford Health System are making the patient financial experience frictionless. Click here to attend the live discussion.

5. Humana to open 100+ Medicare centers by 2023  Full story 

6. California hospital COO disciplined over vaccine scandal  Full story 

7. Bon Secours to end inpatient care, emergency services at Virginia hospital  Full story

8. Biden to pick nurse as acting surgeon general  Full story

9. Recent payer-provider collaboration signifies a paradigm shift in healthcare. Click here to learn why payers, providers and patients stand to benefit.

10. Children's Hospital Los Angeles receives $25M gift from anonymous donor  Full story

11. Illinois rejects Trinity's plan to build outpatient facility where it's closing a hospital  Full story 

12. COVID-19 hospitalizations fall, but deaths rise; US boosts states' vaccine supplies — 6 updates  Full story 

13. Don't let an outdated payment structure hold your organization back. Learn how to maximize profits and meet patient expectations during this live virtual discussion.

14. 2 dead in hostage situation at Texas medical office  Full story 

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

• Test positivity rates
• Hospitalizations
• Where the virus is spreading fastest, slowest
• Death rates
• Vaccines administered 

Becker's Learning Opportunities

1. How to minimize the financial losses and promote surge preparedness — Lessons from a pandemic. Click here to download the e-book.

2. Hospital renovations can disrupt sterile processing. Click here to learn how to maintain uptime processing and maintain surgical volume.

3. Specificity is the new black: How granular insights create big changes in reimbursement