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Becker's has reported on five hospital projects that have been announced in the past six months that are estimated to cost $1.5 billion or more: 

Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health has completed its $762 million Honickman Center in Philadelphia, part of a more than $1 billion urban development project in the city's East Market.

The Suzanne and Walter Scott Foundation has invested more than $23 million to the University of Nebraska Omaha's Walter Scott, Jr. Scholarship Program, known as Scott Scholars, to sustain and grow the program at the Omaha-based University of Nebraska Medical…

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has filed an application with the city of Sacramento, Calif., to build a Kaiser Permanente Sacramento Railyards Medical Center Medical Facility. 

Mobile, Ala.-based USA Health Children's and Women's Hospital opened a $19 million pediatric emergency center for patients and their families on March 11. 

Loxahatchee, Fla.-based HCA Florida Palms West Hospital, part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, has been given funding approval by the health system to develop an $80 million patient tower on its campus. 

Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Health Valley Network held a ribbon cutting on March 8 to celebrate its first neighborhood hospital, Lehigh Valley Hospital-Macungie (Pa.).

Chippewa Falls, Wis.-based Marshfield Clinic Lake Hallie Center, part of Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic Health System, is opening urgent care services in the coming months to help with the anticipated increase of patients needing emergency and urgent services.

Memphis, Tenn.-based Le Bonheur Children's Hospital will complete the $94 million expansion in May, Commercial Appeal reported March 8.

Baltimore-based University of Maryland Medical System has signed a lease and broken ground on a $32 million logistics operations center in Sparrows Point, Md.