Boca Raton (Fla.) Regional Hospital recently filed plans to build a nine-story patient tower on its campus, according to the South Florida Business Journal. 

Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health plans to build a medical campus that will include a 120-bed hospital, 110-room hotel and research space, according to The Sacramento Business Journal. 

Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine will start construction on its $920 million hospital in the coming months, after delaying the project last year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a March 8 health system update.

California Northstate University is eying Rancho Cordova, Calif., as a potential site for its new teaching hospital after being denied approval to build it in Elk Grove, Calif.

The next year will be marked by several trends that will affect health insurance companies, CVS Health said March 9 in its annual Health Trends report.

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

Cigna intends to grow its commercial health plan footprint by 25 percent by 2025, according to slides shared during the payer's investor day March 8.

Ascension Ventures, the healthcare venture arm of St. Louis-based Ascension, closed a $285 million strategic venture capital fund, bringing the firm's total assets to more than $1 billion, according to a March 5 news release. 

Ballad Health is investing $60 million in a new pediatric care network, the Johnson City, Tenn.-based health system said March 4. 

Walmart heir Alice Walton said she plans to finance and build a medical school in northwest Arkansas.