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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. 

A parking garage at Jacksonville, Fla.-based Ascension St. Vincent Riverside Hospital partially collapsed Sept. 12, spurring an evacuation of a nearby medical building, WJXT reported.

Columbus-based OhioHealth is set to open a new $25 million two story-cancer center Sept. 12.