1. HCA execs keep cost-cutting plan in back pocket for next year  Full story

2. 9 recent hospital credit downgrades  Full story

3. Intermountain, Sanford to merge into 70-hospital system  Full story

4. Eliminated Subsidy, Improved Radiology Turnaround Times. Learn More.

5. Tennessee hospital to end partnership with Vanderbilt  Full story

6. CHS sells 2 Texas hospitals  Full story

7. 10 hospitals seeking CFOs  Full story

8. How Ochsner Health fuels high quality patient care with physician well-being. Click here to attend the live discussion.

9. Ballad Health to postpone elective procedures at some Tennessee hospitals  Full story

10. 6 recent hospital, health system executive retirements  Full story

11. 6 health systems opening hospitals  Full story 

12. What do UNC Health and Yale New Haven Health have in common? Click here to find out.

13. States reversing, pausing, reopening because of the pandemic  Full story 

14. Health execs from 110 Michigan hospitals make public plea as hospitalizations surge  Full story 

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

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

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