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Fort Myers, Fla.-based Lee Health said Oct. 28 it is planning to build a new hospital campus on 52 acres of land in Fort Myers. 

Officials in Butler County, Ohio, selected Humana for a $62.2 million contract to cover public employees, ousting UnitedHealthcare as the county's former insurer. 

Several hefty donations have been made to hospitals and health systems in 2021 so far, going toward hospital improvements, new services, research and more.

Here are 18 hospitals or health systems that have announced, advanced or completed construction projects in the last two weeks:

Ambetter is entering Oklahoma for the first time with offerings in six counties. 

Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health received a $30 million gift in honor of the late David Conlan, a patient who benefited from the hospital's rehabilitative medicine.

Penn Medicine's new 1.5 million-square-foot pavilion on the Hospital of the University of Philadelphia campus — which opens Oct. 30 — received a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Healthcare v4 Gold Certification, becoming the largest certified project in the…

University of Chicago Medicine is planning to build a 116,000-square-foot medical facility with a microhospital in northwest Indiana, the Chicago Tribune reported Oct. 26.

Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health and Novant Health, the biggest health systems in Charlotte, are competing to add more hospital beds in Mecklenburg County, the Charlotte Business Journal reported Oct. 25.

To keep up with its growing population, Dallas-based Children's Health on Oct. 26 broke ground on its 300,000-square-foot tower at its Plano, Texas, campus, which will increase the total number of beds from 72 to 212.