Universal Health Services and Beaumont Health broke ground Dec. 16 on a new mental health hospital in Dearborn, Mich.

Twelve hospitals and health systems since Oct. 1 have advanced, completed or began facility expansions and renovations with price tags of $300 million or more.

Mayo Clinic and Ascension St. Vincent are among the healthcare giants who invested hundreds of millions of dollars into Northeast Florida this year to expand or upgrade technology, according to the Jacksonville Business Journal.

Fountain Hill, Pa.-based St. Luke's University Health Network will open a $100 million hospital campus to patients Dec. 14, according to The Morning Call.

San Francisco.-based Dignity Health plans to close Methodist Hospital of Sacramento (Calif.) when construction ends on its $320 million facility in Elk Grove, Calif., according to the Sacramento Business Journal.

Ten hospitals or health systems announced, started or completed construction projects in the last two weeks:

Utica, N.Y.-based Mohawk Valley Health System will break ground on its $480 million hospital this week, according to local radio station WRVO Public Media.

Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network broke ground last week on its ninth hospital in Pennsylvania, according to Lehigh Valley Live. 

Pensacola, Fla.-based Baptist Health Care selected an architect, program manager and general contractor for its $550 million replacement hospital this week, according to The Pensacola News Journal.

Nebraska Medicine and the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha are planning a sprawling $1 billion to $2 billion medical complex with buildings for research and inpatient care. 

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare's $150 million Spanish Fork (Utah) Hospital is expected to open in fall of 2020, according to the Daily Herald. 

UnityPoint Health Marshalltown (Iowa) plans to consolidate medical services at one location, and close its North Campus hospital. 

The opening of Medical University of South Carolina Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital has been pushed back again, according to local news station WCSC.

The following health systems have opened new hospitals, advanced proposals to build them or announced plans to build new facilities since Nov. 7.

Healthcare facility design and construction experts should keep an eye on several trends next year, including the healthcare industry's quest for sustainability and increased uses of technology, according to Simone Health, a healthcare architecture firm.

After 22 months of construction, Idaho Falls Community Hospital opened to patients Dec. 2. 

In 2019, eight hospitals and health systems announced, began construction on or unveiled facility expansions and renovations with price tags of $1 billion or more.

Mercyhealth's is one step closer to building a microhospital in Crystal Lake, Ill., after an appellate court ruled against its competitor, according to the Northwest Herald. 

University of California San Francisco will move forward with plans to build a $275 million research facility at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic and Abu Dhabi Health Services Company have partnered to open and operate a 741-licensed bed hospital in the United Arab Emirates.