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Kettering (Ohio) Health is planning renovations at its hospital in Troy, Ohio to accommodate an ambulatory center, the Dayton Business Journal reported Oct. 25. 

New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine is expanding its footprint with additional medical practice space in Manhattan and a new residence dorm in the Upper East Side.

Signet Jewelers, the largest retailer of diamond jewelry, has donated $100 million to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.

Baptist Health Care is seeking to donate its old hospital campus to the city of Pensacola, Fla., after opening a new $650 million campus last month, the Pensacola News Journal reported Oct. 30.

The details may yet to be filled in, but Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has grand plans for its Jacksonville, Fla., campus with a further 210 acres of land recently purchased there, according to an Oct. 30 Jacksonville Florida Times-Union report.

Denver-based Healthpeak Properties and Milwaukee-based Physicians Realty Trust announced a definitive agreement Oct. 30 to combine in an all-stock merger of equals valued at approximately $21 billion. 

Cincinnati Children's Hospital broke ground on an $85 million two-story, 110,000 square-foot medical facility that will provide urgent care and an outpatient surgery center,Cincinnati Business Courier reported Oct. 27.

Perry (Okla.) Memorial Hospital, the first rural emergency hospital in Oklahoma, is launching a $13 million facility improvements capital expenditure project, The Journal Record reported Oct. 27.

Bend, Ore.-based St. Charles Health System boosted its annual net revenue by $10 million through a six-month RCM improvement partnership with Guidehouse. 

Hospitals in Washington, West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia and Texas have all announced expansion plans.