After several years of reshaping its hospital portfolio, St. Louis-based Ascension is back in growth mode, and much of that expansion is unfolding in four key battleground states where multiple health systems are competing to add capacity, expand access and…
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Grand Rapids and Southfield, Mich.-based Corewell Health plans to invest $1.7 billion in major expansions at two Michigan hospitals. The investment will expand capacity and modernize emergency and surgical care at Corewell Health Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids and Corewell…
Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine broke ground Aug. 26 on the WVU Medicine St. Clairsville (Ohio) Community Hospital, a $56 million investment to expand healthcare access in Belmont County (Ohio) and surrounding areas. The two-story, 55,000-square-foot hospital will comprise inpatient beds,…
Raleigh, N.C.-based WakeMed Health & Hospitals has filed four separate certificate of need applications with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services for two new hospitals and bed expansions that total $919.2 million. The applications, filed Aug. 17,…
The Las Vegas Raiders are donating $25 million to Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health to help fund the construction of Nevada’s first stand-alone pediatric hospital. Raiders owners Mark Davis, Egon Durban and Michael Meldman each contributed $5 million, and the…
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AdventHealth Winter Garden (Fla.) opened its new labor and delivery unit Aug. 24. The new unit, called The Baby Place at AdventHealth Winter Garden, includes nine labor, delivery and recovery rooms, 10 postpartum beds and two dedicated C-section operating rooms,…
Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health and Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta have received approval to move forward with plans for a new teaching hospital that could eventually grow to more than 700 beds. Atrium Health, part of Charlotte-based Advocate Health,…
Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health has opened a cancer center in Park City, Utah. The Intermountain Health Park City Hospital Cancer Center increased infusion capacity from four bays to 18, according to an Aug. 20 news release from the health…
Every element of a healthcare environment’s design influences how patients heal, how staff work and how efficiently the organization performs. Traditionally, healthcare design has relied mostly on a subjective feedback loop. But a novel approach is emerging that uses biometric…
Minneapolis-based Allina Health is investing in what it sees as the future of care, across hospital, outpatient and virtual settings. That includes the $1 billion Richard M. Schulze Surgical and Critical Care Center at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, which…