Hermitage, Tenn.-based TriStar Summit Medical Center, part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, has received approval from the Tennessee Health Facilities Commission for a certificate of need to build an $18 million freestanding emergency department. The facility, which will be located…

Orlando Health Watson Clinic Lakeland (Fla.) Highlands Hospital is scheduled to open July 8 after more than six years of construction and planning. The more than $500 million facility is the first hospital opening in Lakeland in over a century,…

New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has broken ground on a $2.3 billion inpatient facility, the Kenneth C. Griffin Pavilion. The new facility will be connected to the cancer center’s main hospital by a dedicated patient bridge, according…

Houston Methodist has received a $110 million gift, its largest single commitment in the system’s more than 100-year history. Four notes: 1. The gift came from The Brockman Medical Research Foundation to support neuroscience, neurological care and women’s health initiatives,…

Oregon will distribute $37.5 million in state and federal funds to 21 rural hospitals to stabilize maternity services, though leaders warn the one-time investment won’t offset looming Medicaid cuts. In January, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek announced a $25 million state…

On June 22, West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health and New Brunswick, N.J.-based Rutgers Cancer Institute opened the Melchiorre Cancer Center at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J. The cancer center cost $225 million, according to a June 23 news…

Hyannis, Mass.-based Cape Cod Healthcare has received a $20 million gift from Cynthia G. and John F. Fish of Osterville, Mass., the largest charitable donation in the health system’s history. Four things to know:  1. The gift will support initiatives…

Charleston, S.C.-based MUSC Health and Dallas-based Intuitive Health have opened the state’s first combined emergency and urgent care facility. Four things to know: 1. MUSC Health Emergency and Urgent Care-Garners Ferry is part of MUSC Health Columbia (S.C.) Medical Center…

Tampa-based AdventHealth Carrollwood shared plans June 18 to begin construction on a $214 million expansion that will add a new six-story patient tower to its facility to increase inpatient capacity and enhance surgical and specialty services.  The project at the…

Four health systems said they plan to build new hospitals in North Carolina within the past three days — the latest signal that competition for patients in one of the country’s fastest-growing states is intensifying, not leveling off. Chapel Hill,…