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

New York-based NYU Langone Medical Center experienced a fire Dec. 14 at a part of the building that is under construction, CBS News reports.

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Shenandoah (Iowa) Medical Center hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony Dec. 14 to unveil the first phase of the hospital's $22 million expansion and remodeling project, according to KMA Land.

St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare gained city council approval to replace Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital in Creve Coeur, Mo., with a modern structure more than double the size of the hospital, reports St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The New York City Economic Development Corporation will begin accepting offers Wednesday from developers interested in redeveloping the former Staten Island, N.Y.-based Seaview Hospital, once the nation's largest tuberculosis hospital, according to the Wall Street Journal.

With healthcare construction spending projected to double in 2017 from $19.6 billion in 2016, according to Architect Magazine, there will be significant expansion, renovation and construction of new healthcare facilities in the upcoming year.

The Georgia Department of Community Health on Dec. 12 approved a request by Atlanta-based Piedmont Hospital to build a $603 million, 16-story patient tower next to its main campus, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

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Moses-Ludington Hospital, a 15-bed critical care hospital in Ticonderoga, N.Y., unveiled plans for a $9 million renovation that will expand its emergency department four-fold, according to the Press Republican.