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Omaha, Neb.-based Children's Hospital & Medical Center broke ground on a $450 million facility Dec. 8, Omaha World-Herald reports.

In these post-election days of uncertainty, when the words "repeal and/or replace" are echoed in many circles, there are a few issues meriting clarification and particular emphasis.

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

The relationship between happiness and health has long been thought of as a "soft science," but the new Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health aims to bring the science…

The Washington State Department of Health on Nov. 29 issued a certificate of need to Tacoma, Wash.-based CHI Franciscan Health, which clears the way for the health system to expand St. Anthony Hospital in Gig Harbor, Wash.

Dallas-based Children's Health opened a clinic to provide medical, behavioral and mental healthcare to foster children, KHOU reports. 

Cumming, Ga.-based Northside Hospital-Forsyth filed a certificate of need Dec. 5 to expand its facilities to meet patient demand in 2021, Forsyth County News reports.   

Fulton (Mo.) State Hospital will receive $97.2 million in bonds issued by the Missouri Office of Administration to conclude its construction, reports Columbia Daily Tribune.

New York City-based health insurance startup Oscar Health is moving into providing care. The insurance company opened its first clinic in Brooklyn through a partnership with New York-based Mount Sinai Health System, according to a report from The New York…

A proposed expansion of Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, N.Y., is closer to reality after the Town of Ithaca's planning board on Tuesday approved the final site plan for the project, reports The Ithaca Journal.