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Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente is expanding two hospitals and building two new medical offices, according to The Press-Enterprise. 

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' Division of Health Services Regulation is reviewing three proposals for a hospital expansion project in Buncombe County, N.C., according to an Aug. 15 report from Blue Ridge Public Radio.

The following list includes health systems who have opened hospitals, submitted proposals for construction or announced plans to build them since July 29: 

The following 17 hospitals or health systems have announced expansions since July 29: 

The city of Pensacola, Fla., will purchase the Kupfrian House property on Baptist Hospital's campus, also in Pensacola, for $725,000 to build a new park if the hospital agrees to add affordable housing to its redevelopment plan, the Pensacola News…

Raleigh, N.C.-based WakeMed filed two certificates of need with the state of North Carolina to build a 45-bed acute care hospital and a 150-bed mental health hospital.

Advocacy group State Employees Association of North Carolina, or SEANC, is calling on the state's Department of Human Health and Services to deny Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare's Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Hospital expansion. 

Patients struggling with substance misuse and needing recovery care have a new resource available at the Martins Ferry-based East Ohio Regional Hospital.

Long Beach, Calif.-based Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center is planning $387 million worth of renovations, Long Beach Business Journal reported Aug. 11. 

Franciscan Health Rensselaer (Ind.) will soon begin a $28 million project to upgrade and modernize the hospital, according to an Aug. 10 press release from the health system.