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Dayton, Ohio-based Kettering Health Network plans to construct a new hospital in Troy, Ohio.

Briar Health Care, a private nursing facility in Sacramento, Calif., has been operating without air-conditioning since June 21, according to FOX40.

MedExpress Urgent Care, a subsidiary of Optum Health, will open a walk-in clinic one mile away from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., according to the Post-Bulletin.

Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican, a subsidiary system of San Francisco-based Dignity Health, opened a "neighborhood hospital" in Las Vegas as part of its joint venture with The Woodlands, Texas-based microhospital manager Emerus.

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

Construction is underway at Memorial Medical Center in La Cruces, N.M., on a $15 million expansion on its cancer center, reports Las Cruces Sun-News.

Siteman Cancer Center, based at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, opened a satellite location July 1 at Christian Hospital in St. Louis.

The University of Chicago Medicine's Urban Health Initiative and the Department of Pediatrics are heading up a collaboration of healthcare providers to develop the South Side Pediatric Asthma Center to offer residents high-quality pediatric asthma management on Chicago's South Side.

UPMC Susquehanna in Williamsport, Pa., purchased a three-building former retail plaza in McElhattan, Pa., with the goal of using the space for future healthcare services.

Hammel, Green and Abrahamson will serve as master architect and engineer for The MetroHealth System's main campus transformation project.