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Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System's board has approved a $277.5 million expansion project for Memorial Hermann Cypress (Texas) Hospital. 

Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare Health has launched a new joint venture with Atlas Healthcare Partners, which develops and manages ambulatory surgery centers in partnership with nonprofit health systems and physicians.

Washington, D.C.-based Howard University is moving plans forward for a new $650 million hospital that would be in front of its existing Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C.

Indianapolis-based Indiana University Health has shared plans to construct a $421 million hospital in Fort Wayne, Ind.

Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare Health has received board approval for a plan to invest more than $110 million to expand Bartow (Fla.) Regional Medical Center.

Site preparation and pre-construction on University of Maryland Shore Regional Health's largest hospital will begin later in July.

York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health has begun construction on its third hospital in partnership with the microhospital developer Emerus.

A $20 million project to add on medical offices at OhioHealth Doctors Hospital in Columbus has reached completion, the system announced July 11.

Joplin, Mo.-based Freeman Health System's new Kansas hospital officially has a name and location.

Jefferson Hospital in Jefferson Hills, Pa., has finalized its breast and imaging center expansion and renovation.