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…

Saint Francis Hospital Muskogee (Okla.) will open a seven-story, $286.6 million patient tower Dec. 5. The hospital is part of Tulsa, Okla.-based Saint Francis Health System. The tower adds 290,000 square feet to the hospital and comprises larger patient rooms,…

Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health’s proposal for Atrium Health Fort Mill in South Carolina, a planned $450 million hospital campus, has been approved. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority Board of Commissioners unanimously approved the proposal at its quarterly meeting Dec. 2, a…

The design phase for Syracuse, N.Y.-based SUNY Upstate University Hospital’s new $450 million hospital annex is set to kick off, according to a Dec. 2 news release from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office. Ms. Hochul confirmed SUNY Upstate University…