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Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Medical Center is beginning an 80-bed expansion of its emergency department June 8. The university's board of visitors approved the three-year, $394 million project in March 2015 in response to high volumes and cramped condition's in…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture approved funding to build a new facility for Syracuse (Neb.) Community Memorial Hospital.

The William C. Knapp Emergency Department and Trauma Center at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines is set to open June 7.

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

NYU Lutheran Medical Center will expand its Brooklyn facilities, according to Crain’s New York Business.

Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood will face the wrecking ball June 7 after years of inactivity, according to DNA Info.

Crystal Lake, Ill.-based Centegra Health System will open a new $230 million hospital in Huntley, Ill., Aug. 9, according to the Daily Herald.

New Orleans, La.-based Ochsner Health System and Franklin, Tenn.-based behavioral health provider Acadia Healthcare have formed a strategic partnership to provide critically needed behavioral health services. Together, Ochsner and Acadia will repurpose the existing River Parishes Hospital building in LaPlace,…

Practice Greenhealth has recognized 13 health systems that gather data, set system goals, benchmark and share successes in environmental performance with the 2016 System for Change Award.

St. Paul, Minn.-based HealthEast is planning to build a new medical office building on vacant land directly adjacent to its St. John's Hospital campus in Maplewood, Minn., according to the Star Tribune.