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.

Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare has expanded its joint venture with Encompass Health to include Walton Rehabilitation Hospital, in Augusta, Ga. 

Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger has shared plans for a proposed $880 million expansion to its Geisinger Medical Center in Danville. 

Orlando Health's new 320,000 square foot hospital in Lake Mary, Fla., is slated to open in January 2025 after beginning construction in November 2021.

In the next fiscal year, Charleston, S.C.-based Medical University of South Carolina plans to spend almost $600 million to expand services and begin construction on two new hospitals, The Post and Courier reported July 8. 

Kenneth Griffin, founder and CEO of investment firm Citadel, has donated a total of $545 million to various hospitals, health systems and cancer treatment and research specialists over the last 18 months. 

Geisinger has broken ground on a major expansion that will nearly double the size of Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., a spokesperson for the system told Becker's.

Randallstown, Md.-based Northwest Hospital is getting a $6 million state-funded expansion and redesign of its emergency department, the Baltimore Banner reported June 27. 

Since 2010, 149 rural hospitals across the nation have closed or stopped providing inpatient care, leaving local communities to grapple with what to do with the buildings, KFF Health News reported June 26.

Brentwood, Tenn.-based TriStar Health, part of HCA Healthcare, received approval to build a $250 million hospital in Spring Hill, Tenn., local news outlet WZTV reported June 27. 

Officials with the city of Pittsburgh halted construction work on UPMC's $1.5 billion hospital tower June 20, saying the health system did not have permits required for certain aspects of the project, according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report. 

Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.-based Phelps Hospital, part of New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, has completed an $8.8 million renovation of its fifth-floor medical/surgical unit that included converting double rooms into 15 single rooms.