Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health is drawing up plans for its flagship freestanding children's hospital. 

Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health's certificate of need application to build a $29 million freestanding emergency department has been approved by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic revealed that its new investments in downtown Rochester will add an additional 1.9 million square feet of space to the health system, local news outlet KROC reported Sept. 24.

Baystate Health in Springfield, Mass., set the largest fundraising goal in its history, The Greenfield Recorder reported Sept. 21.

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai received a $25 million gift from Alfred E. Mann Charities to create a precision medicine innovation center that will work to advance single-cell biology research.

New York City-based Mount Sinai has received a $6.2 million grant from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation, a nonprofit launched in 2001.

Bay Shore, N.Y.-based South Shore University Hospital, part of New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, is set to break ground on a new $468 million pavilion, Newsday reported Sept. 19.

Cincinnati-based Mercy Health opened urgent care centers in Fairfield and Hamilton, Ohio on Sept. 13, with two more to open in the coming weeks, local news outlet KWRC reported Sept. 18. 

Pensacola, Fla.-based Baptist Health Care is moving into its new $650 million hospital campus, which will begin accepting patients Sept. 23, according to ABC affiliate WEAR News.

San Antonio-based Methodist Healthcare System invested $75 million to reopen a shuttered San Antonio hospital before the end of the month, San Antonio Business Journal reported Sept. 18.

Fort Myers, Fla.-based Lee Health is advancing plans for a new hospital in the city licensed for 400 beds.

Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Children's Hospital-Upstate is looking to raise $6 million for a new pediatric cancer and blood disorder treatment unit, Greenville Journal reported Sept. 14. 

The recently opened Medical University of South Carolina Health Black River Medical Center came out of the ruins of two independent community hospitals in a rural part of the state.

San Francisco-based Laguna Honda Hospital is in line to receive up to $28.4 million for emergency renovations as it attempts to rejoin Medicare, NPR affiliate KQED reported Sept. 13.  

Irving, Texas-based Christus Health has awarded nearly $3 million to 42 nonprofits in Texas, New Mexico and Louisiana through its community impact fund.

The philanthropic foundation established by Best Buy founder Richard Schulze is donating $25 million to Allina Health's 10-story expansion of Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. The gift is the largest in Allina's history, according to the Star Tribune. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare has opened an 11,000-square-foot freestanding emergency room affiliated with HCA Florida Lake Monroe Hospital in Sanford, the Orlando Business Journal reported Sept. 13. 

Mayo Clinic in Florida cut the ribbon on its Community Health Collaborative, a research, community outreach and health education office in Jacksonville.

Bolivar, Mo.-based Citizens Memorial Hospital is to hold a groundbreaking ceremony on an expansion that will double the size of the facility, according to a Sept. 12 Springfield Business Journal report.

Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network detailed a proposed micro-hospital and medical office project to Hellertown, Pa., officials, lehighvalleynews.com reported Sept. 12.