New Jersey's lone public hospital is planning a 10 year, $1.8 billion overhaul that remains mostly unfunded, nj.com reported Feb. 9.

Naples, Fla-based NCH Healthcare System landed a $20 million naming gift from the Rooney Foundation, the South Florida Hospital News reported Feb. 8.

Hospitals and health systems are often a target of philanthropists and charity donations. 

Medical City McKinney (Texas) has started work on a $17 million project to expand care for mothers and newborns. 

Henry Ford Health, Michigan State University and Tom Gores and the Detroit Pistons plan to invest $2.5 billion over the next decade to transform Detroit's New Center district.

Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children's Research Hospital filed two construction permits to build the foundations of a 15-story outpatient clinic building and a 15-story clinical office building, the Memphis Business Journal reported Feb. 7.

An anonymous donor's $25 million gift to Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia will establish the Center for Epilepsy and Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 

Achintya Moulick, MD, the CEO of Bayonne, N.J.-based CarePoint Health System, said he hopes to one day turn the parking lots surrounding its Hoboken, N.J.-based Christ Hospital into a "medical city," nj.com reported Feb. 6.

After acquiring Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital, Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare Health System plans to invest $100M and reopen closed services at the hospital, Crosscut reported Feb. 7.

Pittsburgh-based UPMC St. Margaret hospital is investing in new LED lighting, paved parking lots, American Disabilities Act-compliant sidewalks, new signs and a replacement canopy to improve the exterior safety of the UPMC hospital, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported Feb. 5.