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.

New legal documents filed by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute delve further into the organization's reasoning for its $1.68 billion endeavor to establish a standalone cancer hospital in partnership with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, The Boston Globe reported Oct. 25.

Prosser (Wash.) Memorial Health is due to complete the construction of its $112 million replacement hospital with a topping off ceremony Oct. 26, according to a Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business report.

The keys are almost in hand for the first new hospital in a decade to be built in the region just north of Cincinnati, according to an Oct. 25 Cincinnati Business Courier report.

Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine is expected to spend between $75 million and north of $90 million in its rebuilding of a shuttered hospital campus into a new cancer center, according to an Oct. 25 report from The Intelligencer.

The long-abandoned Charity Hospital site in New Orleans is facing further delays and rising renovation costs as hope remains it will eventually house major medical facilities, according to an Oct. 24 nola.com report.