1. Mayo Clinic, feds battle over $11.5M in tax refunds  Full story

2. South Dakota health system offers $40K signing bonus to nurses  Full story

3. HCA opens new nursing campus  Full story

4. Smart data and advanced analytics will be the picks and shovels that we use to improve health system performance. But what do those words, "smart data" and "advanced analytics" mean in practice? Read more.

5. ACOs earned $2.3B in shared savings bonuses last year: CMS  Full story

6. Efficacy of COVID-19 shots in front-line workers tumbled with delta's spread in CDC study  Full story

7. 40% of hospitals not publishing community health needs assessments, putting tax-exempt status at risk  Full story

8. How Gen Z is shaking up healthcare & the workplace: 5 things to know  Full story

9. Chief quality officers on how they're preparing for CMS' new glycemic management measures. Here's what your hospital needs to know.

10. COVID-19 deaths, hospitalizations hit all-time high in Florida  Full story

11. Former Epic CFO joins EHR software company  Full story 

12. Top 20 healthcare lobbyists by 2021 spending through June  Full story 

13. Your team needs radical common sense. Learn why human understanding is the key to a more responsive health system.

14. Illinois governor signs bill requiring hospitals to provide cheaper care to uninsured  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. Patients deserve to get the most out of their care. Here's how to make sure they do.

2. Can analytics solve hospitals' capacity issues? Here's what leaders from CommonSpirit, Mount Sinai and others think.

3. 18,000 consumers weighed in on customer experience preferences. Here are 4 need-to-know takeaways for healthcare organizations.