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Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor has broken ground on $247 million expansion, according to a Bangor Daily News report.

IPC The Hospitalist Company, a national hospitalist physician practice company, has completed its transaction with Boston-based Steward Health Care System and Steward Medical Group, effective Sept. 1.

The opening of Fargo, N.D.-based Sanford Health's $500 million medical center in Fargo has been pushed back to 2017, according to a KFGO report.  

Chelsea (Mich.) Community Hospital has announced plans to build a new cancer center to expand current cancer services offered on the CCH campus, according to a report from the Chelsea Standard.

Lexington-based University of Kentucky HealthCare and Lexington-based Appalachian Regional Healthcare will partner to create extension services with UK's Lexington-based Gill Heart Institute, according to an article from The Lane Report.

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Decatur County Memorial Hospital in Greensburg, Ind., announced the opening of its new medical/surgical unit Sept. 10.

Metro Health has received certificate of need approval for a $13.8 million surgery in a vacant medical office building in Grand Rapids, Mich., according to a MiBiz report.  

Los Angeles-based La Peer Health Systems has opened the doors of a new surgery center for post-cancer breast reconstruction.

La Mesa, Calif.-based Sharp Grossmont Hospital has begun construction on a new heart and vascular center.