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

Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Health broke ground Thursday on a new destination cancer center, which will provide individualized, comprehensive and advanced cancer care, according to News4JAX.

Southern Nevada Health District's Board of Health voted down bids from three Las Vegas hospitals to add Level III trauma centers, mirroring recommendations from both the Regional Trauma Advisory Board and the Office of Emergency Medical Services and Trauma System…

Columbus-based OhioHealth has allocated $60 million to launch a network of freestanding emergency departments, slated to open in 2018, reports The Columbus Dispatch.

This week the San Antonio Regional Hospital Foundation collected the final dollars needed for its $12 million expansion project, the Daily Bulletin reported.

More than one-third of hospitals in the developing world lack running water, creating dangerous and unsanitary conditions for patients, a study from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore revealed.

AdCare Health Systems, a self-managed healthcare real estate investment company based in Roswell, Ga., announced that Peach Health Group affiliates will sublease three of the company's Georgia facilities.

Ohio Environmental Protect Agency officials put Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton on notice after finding high levels of lead in its water, the Dayton Daily News reported.

Old Greenwich, Conn.-based Horse Island Asset Management has shared plans to build a four-story, $50 million hospital with 25 beds and an office medical building in Beachwood, Ohio, The Plain Dealer reported.

Macon, Ga.-based Navicent Health, formally known as the Medical Center of Central Georgia, announced the construction of a replacement children's hospital, 13 WMAZ reported.