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Ascension Wisconsin will open its 33,000-square-foot neighborhood hospital in Waukesha Oct. 13, the third of its three new hospitals, BizTimes reported Oct. 6.

Minneapolis-based Bright HealthCare is entering Texas as it offers new plans in three cities. 

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, La., plans to build a $100 million cancer institute.

Bozeman Health, the dominant provider in Montana's most rapidly growing region, announced Oct. 4 plans to add a $7 million, first-of-its-kind adult inpatient psychiatric unit to Deaconess Hospital in Bozeman, by 2023.

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health — with the help of MedCraft Healthcare Real Estate — purchased the vacant Macy's store at Meriden Mall in Connecticut and will repurpose it into a retail health facility.

Payers are unveiling their 2022 Medicare Advantage plans ahead of the open enrollment period beginning Oct. 15. 

Ahead of the 2022 open enrollment period, Centene announced Oct. 4 its plans to expand its Medicare Advantage reach to 327 new counties, marking 26 percent growth. 

The following health systems have opened hospitals, advanced proposals to build them or announced plans for them since Sept. 1.

September was a big month for donations to healthcare organizations, with eight gifts reported by Becker's Hospital Review. These gifts went to hospital improvements, new buildings and research.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Clover Health is nearly doubling its Medicare Advantage reach by entering 101 new counties and one new state ahead of the 2022 open enrollment period.