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Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago has received an $11 million gift to launch a division focused on genetics and rare diseases. The gift from Don and Anne Edwards will create the Edwards Family Division of Genetics…

Boston Children’s Hospital has received a $100 million donation from Rob and Karen Hale — the largest in the hospital’s history — to support a new $650 million pediatric psychiatric hospital.  The gift will fund the creation of an integrated…

Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth will open a $270 million hospital, AdventHealth Minneola (Fla.), Dec. 10. Kay Barnett, CEO of AdventHealth Minneola, told Becker’s that her top priorities for the facility’s first year include expanding access for South Lake County’s rapidly…

St. Croix Health in St. Croix Falls, Wis., has secured funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to build a 130,000-square-foot hospital. Here are five things to know: 1. The facility will replace its current hospital, constructed in 1954, and…

UCI Health will open its new seven-story, 144-bed, all-electric acute care hospital — UCI Health Irvine — on Dec. 10, according to the Los Angeles Times. The facility will be the academic health system’s sixth hospital and complete its medical…

Lynchburg, Va.-based Centra Health has completed construction on its new $100 million Centra Langhorne Medical Center in Lynchburg.  The health system broke ground on the facility in Spring 2024. It comprises five stories and 130,000 square feet, according to a…

Hartford-based Connecticut Children’s opened its new clinical tower on Dec. 4, marking the largest expansion in the health system’s history. The eight-story tower includes a private-room neonatal intensive care unit, a comprehensive fetal care center and sensory-friendly design features, according…

Dignity Health’s Mercy Hospital Southwest in Bakersfield, Calif., opened its new 142,000-square-foot patient tower on Dec. 4. The Thomas M. Hardt Tower expands clinical capacity for the growing westside Bakersfield community, according to a Dec. 1 news release shared with…

Louisville, Ky.-based UofL Health has opened the West Tower at UofL Hospital, a $186 million, seven-story expansion that marks the first phase of a major modernization effort. The 193,000-square-foot tower expands clinical capacity with new surgical suites, inpatient rooms and…

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare will donate $4.8 million to Malibu, Calif.-based Pepperdine University to help kick off the School of Nursing in its College of Health Science.  “We believe that investing in nursing education is vital to the future of…