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Although it's five-years behind schedule and $1 billion over budget the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center  finally will open to outpatients July 27 and inpatients Aug. 4, the Denver Post reports.

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Baltimore-based University of Maryland Medical System plans to close University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Dorchester, a 47-bed hospital in Cambridge, Md., in 2021 and replace it with a freestanding facility 1 mile away, according to The Daily Record.

A man's threat to an employee at Washington, D.C.,-based MedStar Washington Hospital triggered an evacuation and fears of an active shooter, according to The Washington Post.

The following hospitals announced or completed plans in the last week to expand, upgrade or renovate their facilities. 

Chicago-based Oak Street Health — a network of primary care centers for Medicare patients in medically underserved communities — will open three centers in Philadelphia this year.

Today’s hospitals operate with slim profit margins -- in most cases lower than five percent -- which leaves little room for mistakes or wasted time and resources.

Greenwich (Conn.) Hospital, part of Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health, will begin a $160 million upgrade this fall, according to Greenwich Time.

Over 100 community activists and residents spoke at a Pittsburgh City Council hearing July 17 on the proposed expansion of UPMC Mercy facilities in the city's Uptown neighborhood, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.