Richmond, Va.-based VCU Health has decided not to move forward with plans to build a $350 million, seven-story research building and to instead build a new dental school facility, the Richmond-Times Dispatch reported Feb. 21.
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Hawkinsville, Ga.-based Taylor Regional Hospital opened its new $6 million emergency room, 13WMAZ reported Feb. 20.
Billionaire Joe Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade, has donated $1 million to help with the build of a new rural hospital in the state that is facing a funding gap, according to a Feb. 20 Jackson Hole Daily report.
Aurora, Ill.-based VNA Health Care received $500,000 in federal funds for the construction of a new 14,000-square-foot facility in Joliet, Ill.
Inflationary pressures are continuing to affect both the budgets and timing of a number of planned healthcare projects. Here is a sample of such affected projects since Becker'sreported on similar delays at the end of 2022.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently distributed $49.6 million in funds to healthcare organizations across Western New York, The Buffalo News reported Feb. 15.
Costs of window replacement at Iowa City-based University of Iowa Children's Stead Family Children’s Hospital have tripled to $45 million after workers found that the number of floors with damaged windows was nine instead of two, The Gazette reported Feb.…
Cleveland Clinic London will open a second outpatient facility in the fall, adding to its first London outpatient facility — opened in September 2021 — and its $1 billion, 184-bed hospital that opened in March 2022.
Pizza company Domino's wrapped up its St. Jude "Thanks and Giving" campaign Jan. 8 after raising $13 million for the Memphis, Tenn.-based pediatric research hospital.
Duluth, Minn.-based St. Luke's debuted a new $5.2 million, 16,000-square-foot obstetrics and gynecology clinic a year after announcing plans to create the clinic, the Pine Journal reported Feb. 15.