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.

UChicago Medicine has broken ground on a two-story, 130,000-square-foot multispecialty care center and microhospital in Crown Point, Ind. 

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Cohen Children's Medical Center opened its $110 million, 24,000-square-foot pediatric surgical center Aug. 9. 

After losing out to Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare for a hospital in Buncombe County, N.C., in 2017, Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health is again attempting to build a new hospital in the county, Citizen Times reported Aug. 8. 

The University of New Mexico on Aug. 8 broke ground on a $43.3 million facility to house and consolidate its college of nursing and college of population health, according to the Albuquerque Journal.