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The University of Chicago Medicine is planning a $633 million freestanding clinical cancer center, which will be the city's first and will span 500,000 square feet on its campus on the South Side.

Advocate Aurora Health opened its new 60-bed hospital campus Feb.1 in Mount Pleasant, Wis.

As health systems plan for capital projects, they may find themselves competing with other systems in nearby areas. Here are four recent turf wars reported on by Becker's.

Froedtert Health and the Medical College of Wisconsin opened an acute-care community hospital Jan. 31 called Froedtert Community Hospital-Oak Creek (Wis.). 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will give $360 million to Medical West Hospital Authority to build a 200-bed hospital in rural Alabama.

Six donations have been made to healthcare organizations in the last week to establish centers and build facilities, Becker's reported.

Expansion plans for Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Medical Center have been approved by a committee of the University of California Board of Regents after the university agreed to include support for underserved populations in the community, Sacramento Business Journal reported…

Globally, healthcare is one of the most carbon-intensive industries, responsible for between 4.4 and 4.6 percent of greenhouse gas emissions and toxic air pollutants — and the U.S. healthcare industry is the largest contributor.

Austin, Texas-based Dell Children's Medical Center received a $1 million donation from jewelry designer Kendra Scott, which will partially go toward an event center at the hospital.

The following health systems have opened hospitals, advanced proposals to build them or announced plans for them in the last week: