1. Employees demand pay after Tennessee hospital closure  Full story

2. Louisiana hospital inks affiliation to avoid $200M Epic EHR price tag  Full story

3. Hospital M&A update: 10 deals involving HCA, Tenet, LifePoint + more  Full story

4. Scale with no investment or additional staff. Discover how New Mexico Heart Institute improved cardiac monitoring access and shortened their time to treatment. Register here.

5. Baylor Scott & White demands physician stop using its name  Full story

6. New York hospital to scale back services post merger  Full story

7. 8 recent hospital, health system executive resignations  Full story

8. 7 ways this COVID-19 surge is different  Full story

9. Your budget needs to go, but your boss disagrees. Learn how to win them over with a shift to rolling forecasts.

10. Fitch: Hospitals with higher credit ratings weathered greater margin deterioration  Full story

11. New York health system to lay off up to 118 employees  Full story 

12. Mayo researchers study 2B claims to find telehealth's payoff  Full story 

13. Want to control costs and improve patient experiences? Your hospital is probably due for a customer operations revamp.

14. 92 hospitals, health systems mandating vaccines for workers  Full story 

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

• Test positivity rates
• Population fully vaccinated
• Vaccines administered
• Hospitalizations
• Death rates 

Becker's Learning Opportunities

1. Learn how point-of-order advice on every test kept this Illinois system from overordering. 

2. There's 15 KPIs driving your health system's telehealth success — click here to learn them.

3. Coping with COVID-19: A roadmap to supporting clinician well-being