Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth and Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare are both separately expanding an emergency department presence in St. Johns County, Fla., as their state ED footprints grow. AdventHealth shared plans Feb. 19 to build a 12-bed emergency department in…

Trinity Health will open a new $229 million hospital in Brighton, Mich., on April 19.  Five things to know:  1. Trinity Health Livingston will replace the system’s current hospital in Howell, Mich, located about eight miles away. Current inpatients will…

Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health has shared plans to build a $12 million emergency department at its Essentia Health-Fosston (Minn.) this spring. The new ED will add more than 5,500 square feet to the hospital’s campus, growing it from 1,100 square…

Providence has received a second $75 million gift from longtime philanthropists Phil and Penny Knight to advance cardiac care at Providence Heart Institute and Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, Ore. Five things to know:  1. The donation matches…

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare opened HCA Florida St. Augustine Emergency on Feb. 18, further expanding its Florida freestanding emergency department footprint. The 10,860-square-foot facility is the second freestanding ER in St. Johns County opened by Jacksonville-based HCA Florida Memorial Hospital.…

Boise, Idaho-based Saint Alphonsus Health System plans to more than double the size of its Saint Alphonsus Medical Center-Nampa (Idaho) Hospital and build an 80,000-square-foot medical complex.  Saint Alphonsus Health System is a member of Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health. Becker’s…

Northwestern Medicine Catherine Gratz Griffin Lake Forest (Ill.) Hospital opened its $389 million patient pavilions. The two new pavilions add approximately 290,000 square feet of space and nearly double the hospital’s capacity with the addition of 96 medical-surgical beds and…

The Medical University of South Carolina board of trustees has advanced plans to build a new cancer hospital in Charleston. At its February meeting, the board reviewed the estimated cost and design process for the hospital, according to a Feb.…

Marshfield Medical Center-Wisconsin Rapids Campus will open to patients March 1. The campus includes the soon-to-open hospital and Marshfield Clinic Wisconsin Rapids Center, according to a Feb. 16 health system news release. The hospital will include inpatient beds, an emergency…

Nashville, Tenn.-based Ascension Saint Thomas and Dickson Medical Associates plan to build a freestanding emergency department and outpatient campus in Fairview, Tenn. The project will include Fairview’s first 24-hour freestanding ED, owned and operated by Ascension, co-located with a new…