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Olathe (Kan.) Health System launched its rebranding campaign in the first week of 2017, reports The Kansas City Star.

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

Sentara Virginia Beach (Va.) General Hospital will begin a $49 million project to modernize patient care areas and infrastructure in February.

Providence Health Care in Spokane, Wash., has teamed up with Kirkland, Wash.-based Fairfax Behavioral Health to build a 100-bed psychiatric hospital in Spokane by early next year, reports The Spokesman-Review.

DeKalb, Ill.-based Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital is seeking state approval to build a $46 million health and fitness center in the next two years, WNIJ reports.

As health system leaders and engineers work on a plan, Altru Main Clinic in Grand Forks, N.D., remains closed following a sudden structural failure last week, the Grand Forks Herald reported.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente on Jan. 3 opened three new medical offices in Santa Cruz County, marking its first market expansion in Northern California in more than two decades, The Mercury News reports.

New Lenox, Ill.-based Silver Cross Hospital plans to build an outpatient surgical center on former farmland previously owned by a New Lenox school district, the Chicago Tribune reports.

Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo (N.Y.) will embark on a phased approach for its move to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, beginning this month with the relocation of seven of its outpatient clinics to the newly completed Oishei Children's…

Several fire crews fought to extinguish a transformer fire in an electrical room at Cincinnati Children's Hospital early Jan. 4, according to Cincinnati.com.