Burlington-based University of Vermont Health Network is investing $6 million in a new apartment building for employee housing, Seven Days VT reported Dec. 15.

Portland-based MaineHealth has acquired the Union Station Plaza shopping center in Portland in a $16.8 million deal, but said it has "no plans to develop the property at this time."

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced he will put $100 million into building a new University of Maryland Medical System hospital in Easton, ABC affiliate WMAR2 reported Dec. 15.

Scottsdale, Ariz.-based HonorHealth has broken ground on a new $50 million, 100,000-square-foot wellness clinic in Scottsdale.

Pittsburgh city council member Bobby Wilson is proposing legislation that would use American Rescue Plan Act funding to eliminate medical debt for 24,000 Pittsburgh residents, ABC affiliate WTAE reported Dec. 13.

Davis Medical Investors acquired the 42,467-square-foot Woodlake Medical Building in Woodbury, Minn., for $18 million, REjournals reported Dec. 13.

West Virginia, which was ranked 47th in states in terms of overall health by the United Health Foundation, has secured $1.2 million in congressional funding to help toward addiction treatment at St. Francis Hospital in Charleston operated by Thomas Health Systems.

The Long Beach, Calif., City Council approved a short-term lease to open a cold-weather homeless shelter at the former Community Hospital Long Beach on Dec. 19, the Press-Telegram reported Dec. 12.

Upstate New York will have a new hospital facility opening Dec. 14 courtesy of a collaboration between Valhalla-based WMCHealth and the state.

Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health plans to open a four-story, 174,000-square-foot hospital as part of its Trinity Health Medical Center - Brighton campus.

The $561 million construction of Minot (N.D.) Trinity Hospital is set for a January completion and an April opening, The Grand Forks Herald reported Dec. 12.

Montefiore Nyack (N.Y.) Hospital is restoring a graveled parking lot to an open field following the opening of a new 400-space parking garage in 2023, Lohud reported Dec. 12.

Northside Hospital will be building more of the new tower at its Gwinnett campus 30 miles from downtown Atlanta than previously announced in a move that will make the Lawrenceville site the largest campus in the hospital system, according to a Dec. 10 Gwinnett Daily Post report.

MetroHealth Medical Center, a county-owned safety-net hospital in Cleveland, has received a $40 million gift from Bob and Joann Glick.

A survey from Regions Financial Corp. found that 54 percent of Americans did not know how to obtain debt relief for medical bills, 49 percent did not know how to use a health savings account to cover costs and 48 percent did not know how to negotiate a medical bill.

Construction has been completed on a new $1.7 million clinic for Hermann (Mo.) Area District Hospital, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Dec. 9.

The Kansas City (Mo.) Council has given the OK for an $130 million complex to be built on the site of the long-closed Trinity Lutheran Hospital, the Kansas City Business Journal reported Dec. 2. 

Atlanta-based Grady Health System is weeks away from wrapping construction on its 600,000-square-foot Correll Pavilion — a project that will expand the hospital's clinic capacity by 45 percent and increase total operating room volume by 25 percent. 

South Charleston, W.Va.-based Thomas Memorial Hospital is unveiling the addition of a new helipad, WCHS reported Dec. 8.

Nearly 10 percent of Americans hold medical debt. In 2022, the issue remained prevalent as politicians, hospital executives and patient advocacy groups worked to address the problem in a myriad of different ways.