Capital

Bedford (Va.) Memorial Hospital, a part of Lynchburg, Va.-based Centra Health system, is planning a $4 million renovation of is emergency department, WSET.com reports. 

Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network opened an after-hours cancer clinic, one of the first clinics of its kind in western Pennsylvania, according to the health system.

Officials from East Stroudsburg, Pa.-based Pocono Health System and Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network plan to build their proposed joint medical campus on the site of a former hotel in Tannersville, Pa., according to Lehigh Valley Business.

Among the myriad of strategic challenges facing healthcare providers in 2017, improving capital effectiveness is emerging as a critical lever for healthcare executives to pull.

Davis Medical Center in Elkins, W. Va., celebrated a new cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation facility Monday, reports The Inter-Mountain.

The New York State Department of Health approved Jamestown, N.Y.-based UPMC Chautauqua WCA's proposed $23 million expansion of its maternity department and inpatient psychiatric units, according to a Buffalo Business First report.

After sitting vacant for seven years, the facility that was Doctors Hospital in Shreveport, La., will reopen as a rehabilitation center under the Willis-Knighton brand, according to a KSLA 12 News report.

Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health broke ground Wednesday on its new medical center in Pflugerville, Texas, reports North Austin Patch.

Crystal Lake, Ill.-based Centegra Health System is not exactly cheering about Rockford, Ill.-based Mercy Health System's plans to build a hospital in Crystal Lake, according to the Northwest Herald.

In response to worsening space constraints at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, the pediatric hospital plans to build a new $1 billion-plus facility in northeast Atlanta, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle.