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Construction is underway for a patient tower at McLaren Port Huron (Mich.) hospital and expected to be completed by the end of 2018, according to The Times Herald.

Chicago-based Union Health Service opened a new facility Tuesday in Evanston, Ill., that offers primary and specialty care.

In October, Middletown, Ohio-based Atrium Medical Center will begin construction on a new natural birth center, according to the Dayton Business Journal.

The federal government approved plans for a three-story apartment building for homeless veterans at the Lincoln Veterans Affairs hospital campus in Nebraska this fall, according to the Lincoln Journal-Star.

The board of directors for Hawaii Health Systems Corp.'s Maui Region decided Wednesday to implement a phased closure plan for the system's three hospitals due to its inability to operate without a public-private partnership, according to Maui Now.

Columbus, Ohio-based retail home store Big Lots has pledged $50 million to support the expansion of a 250,000-square-foot behavioral health treatment and research pavilion at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, according to The Columbus Dispatch.

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

TrustPoint Hospital in Murfreesboro, Tenn., is planning a $57 million expansion that would add nearly 150 new beds and 400 new jobs to the facility, reports Nashville Public Radio.

Tacoma, Wash.-based CHI Franciscan Health has submitted a letter of intent to the Washington State Department of Health requesting regulatory approval to invest in a new hospital at Harrison Medical Center-Silverdale (Wash.). The LOI is the first step in the…

A new clinic aimed at providing trauma therapy at a fraction of the usual cost is opening Thursday in Berkeley, Calif., according to a report in The Daily Californian.