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The University of North Carolina Hospitals, based in Chapel Hill, N.C., has filed a request with the state for 36 additional acute-care beds as part of a $28.3 million expansion and renovation plan, according to a report from WRAL News.

The VA Western New York Healthcare System has finished a $4.2 million upgrade of its surgical unit at its location in Buffalo, N.Y., according to a report from Business First of Buffalo.

Via Christi Health will open a new $93 million hospital this August in Wichita, Kan., according to a report by the Wichita Business Journal.

HCA's long-sought proposal to build a new $195 million, 164-bed hospital in Loudoun County, Va., has been approved by the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, according to a report by the Washington Business Journal.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as the health reform law, contains more than a thousand pages of often fairly obscure provisions, but Section 3022 has particular significance for hospitals and physicians in the future, says Brian…

St. Petersburg, Fla.-based All Children's Hospital received a $2.5 million donation from entrepreneur Bill Edwards to expand therapy and patient education programs at the facility, according to a report in the Tampa Bay Business Journal.

Howard University in Washington, D.C., has submitted a $1.1 billion plan to move its 479-bed hospital and the rest of its campus to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, which is being closed next year, according to a report by the…

Mary Hatch, CFO of the Southwest Region of Utah's Intermountain Healthcare, listed six ways her hospitals' not-for-profit status benefits their communities, according to a report by the Spectrum.

Starting in July, Independence Blue Cross plans to offer primary care physicians in its network up to $150,000 more per year in incentives if their patients stay healthy, according to a report in The Intelligencer.

Adventist HealthCare and Holy Cross Hospital are competing for Maryland officials' approval of what would be the first new hospital in the state in 17 years, according to a report by the Gazette.