The following hospitals announced or completed plans in the last week to expand, upgrade or renovate their facilities.
1. Oregon hospital, academic health center to build $50M collaborative care, training facility
Sky Lakes Medical Center and Oregon Health & Sciences University will partner to build a $50 million, four-story collaborative health center.
2. UMass Memorial gets $109M bond for renovations: 4 things to know
Worchester, Mass-based UMass Memorial Health Care has received a $109.9 million tax-exempt bond to help finance renovations at UMass HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital's Leominster campus.
3. Froedtert Health: New 8-bed 'neighborhood' hospital will free up beds at flagship facility
Milwaukee-based Froedtert Health & Medical College of Wisconsin will build the state's first "neighborhood" hospital in Mequon, Wis., to ease capacity constraints at its hospitals.
4. Advocate Aurora Health to build $250M medical complex in Wisconsin
Advocate Aurora Health, a recently merged entity comprising Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care and Milwaukee-based Aurora Healthcare, will build a $250 million medical complex in Mount Pleasant, Wis.
5. Essentia Health plans $800M expansion
Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health will invest $800 million to build a consolidated medical campus in Duluth, which will include a replacement hospital and outpatient surgery center.