1. 6 hospitals cutting inpatient care  Full story

2. OSU to open $1.79B hospital in 2026  Full story

3. US to offer booster shots starting Sept. 20  Full story

4. 'Customer' is not one of healthcare's dirty words. Click here to learn how customer operations can transform the patient experience

5. 8 recent hospital credit rating downgrades Full story

6. Kindred to close Indiana hospital, lay off 110 employees  Full story

7. Health systems miss out on $2.5B in potential physical therapy revenue a year   Full story

8. Where cases are leveling off, dropping & rising: 8 US COVID-19 trends  Full story

9. Should you fuse identity and access tools? Hear why the CIO of this 700-bed system says yes

10. Humana's CFO on the company's home health push  Full story

11. CEO of 49-bed Kansas hospital resigns  Full story 

12. Financial updates from Kaiser, Mass General Brigham + 4 other systems  Full story 

13. Physician profitability can be greatly improved with timely data. Click here to learn how.

14. Hospitals didn't see a large rebound in utilization in early 2021, KFF finds  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. What tech solutions are helping hospitals + health systems stay on top of mission critical goals? Becker's surveyed dozens of execs to find out. Click here to read the brief summary. 

2. Traditional pain management programs aren't working. Here's the new approach hospitals are taking to prevent chronic opioid use.

3. Will a digital transformation help your health system reach its goals? Click here to learn what's hype and what works.