Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Hospital broke ground April 16 on its eight-story tower dedicated to cancer care, according to Sarasota Magazine.

Uniontown (Pa.) Hospital is delaying a $32 million campus upgrade after Pittsburgh-based UPMC ended its clinical affiliation with the facility, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Las Palmas Medical Center in El Paso, Texas, owned by Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, opened a three-story, $63 million maternity ward March 27, according to the El Paso Times.

Below are seven hospitals or health systems that recently announced, started or completed construction projects worth more than $300 million in the last two months, reported by Becker's Hospital Review.

MetroHealth System in Cleveland broke ground April 15 on an 11-story, 264-bed hospital, which is part of its $946 million revamp, according to The Plain Dealer.

Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus, Ohio will open its $361 million, 210-bed replacement hospital April 28, according to Columbus Business First.

McLaren Greater Lansing (Mich.) will shutter two hospitals in South Lansing when its new consolidated $450 million campus near Michigan State University opens, according to the Lansing State Journal.

As demand for care increases, many hospitals and health systems are already struggling with high bed-occupancy rates, providing timely care access and aligning patients with the most appropriate level care at the right time.

  Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Hospital broke ground April 4 on its 350,000-square-foot Venice, Fla., hospital, according to the Herald-Tribune.

  Residents of Whitman County will vote April 23 on a $29 million bond for Pullman (Wash.) Regional Hospital to fund an expansion, according to KLEW,  a local CBS affiliate.

  Carson Tahoe Health in Carson City, Nev., will open its newly remodeled emergency department April 2, according to the Nevada Appeal.

  The Clay County (Fla.) Board of County Commissioners has approved a rezoning request that will allow Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace, Fla.-based Orange Park Medical Center to build a 60,000-square-foot medical office building, according to the Jacksonville Daily Record.

  Durham, N.C.-based Duke Regional Hospital broke ground March 25 on a $102.4 million expansion, the largest construction project since the hospital opened in 1976, according to The Chronicle.

  The American Society of Healthcare Engineers, a part of the American Hospital Association, recently announced the winners of its 2019 Vista Awards recognizing collaboration to create optimal healthcare environments.

  Columbus (Wis.) Community Hospital will begin a $15 million expansion and renovation project this spring that will add a three-story building onto the hospital, according to the Columbus Journal.

  Mechanicsburg, Penn.-based UPMC Pinnacle West Shore is closing its emergency room entrance to make way for construction that will add two stories to the hospital, according to PennLive.com.

The city council of Rochester, N.Y., has voted to approve Highland Hospital's rezoning application to allow a $70 million expansion, according to the Rochester City Newspaper.

  Two Harbors, Minn.-based Lake View Hospital has announced an expansion that will connect its hospital and clinic to create a combined campus, according to Business North.

  Beechwood, Ohio-based University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center announced plans for a $200 million expansion that will include a patient tower and a sports medicine complex, according to Cleveland.com.

The Cleveland Clinic will build a new hospital in Mentor, Ohio, that will feature both inpatient and outpatient care as well as an emergency department, according to Cleveland.com.