Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Round Rock (Texas) broke ground Jan. 11 on a construction project that will expand the labor and delivery unit, add a neonatal intensive care unit and add more operating rooms, according to ABC affiliate KVUE.

Hospitals and health systems have long been recipients of philanthropists' gifts. Here are three donations over $1 million Becker's has reported since Dec. 19:

The site of a former state hospital in Allentown, Pa., has been sold to Developer City Center for $5.5 million, WFMZ reported Jan. 11.

Charitable group Spark of Hudson donated $1.2 million to Hudson, N.Y.-based Columbia Memorial Health to forgive the medical debt held by 1,156 patients, the Times Union reported Jan. 12.

A former hospital building in Norristown, Pa., has been sold for $22.5 million, the Philadelphia Business Journal reported Jan. 11. 

Rochester, N.Y.-based Strong Memorial Hospital is undergoing a $640 million expansion that will add more than 650,000 square feet of hospital space, ABC affiliate WHAM reported Jan. 11.

The New York City-based nonprofit RIP Medical Debt has grabbed headlines through its ability to buy back medical debt and cancel it.

Naples, Fla.-based NCH Healthcare System has received a $5 million match grant from Barbara and Steve Slaggie to support the construction of a new Margo Urgent Care clinic. 

Investment banker Morgan Stanley has purchased a Californian $68 million office building anchored by medical offices just 3 miles from two of Stanford Medicine's main hospital locations.

Rochester, N.Y.-based Strong Memorial Hospital has begun construction on a project that will nearly triple the size of its emergency department with the addition of a nine-story tower, rochesterfirst.com reported Jan. 10.