Eleven VA-operated facilities across Washington, Texas, Maryland, Oregon, Nevada, California, Connecticut, Missouri and Puerto Rico are slated to receive part of $4,603,129,000 in upgrades as part of a bill introduced to Congress in April.

Atlanta-based Piedmont reopened its Piedmont Augusta (Ga.) Summerville Campus May 15 after it closed the hospital's emergency department and converted to an outpatient campus more than one year ago.

AdventHealth Winter Garden (Fla.), part of Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth, is getting a $145 million expansion.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has nixed plans for an estimated $500 million facility and intends to sell the 1.6 acre parcel of land meant for the facility in Yesler Terrace, a neighborhood in Seattle. 

 Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus, N.J., has broken ground on a major emergency department expansion that will add 19 beds and create separate spaces for patients in need of mental health services.

Phoenix Children's Hospital has shared plans to open a 44,000-square-foot level five neonatal intensive care unit at its main Thomas Campus in Phoenix on May 15. 

Houston-based Legacy Community Health broke ground on its Legacy Pasadena (Texas) Southmore Clinic May 10, which will be funded in part by a $50 million donation from Houston Methodist. 

Corpus Christi, Texas-based Driscoll Children’s has opened its $100 million Driscoll Children's Hospital Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg, Texas. 

Bellaire, Texas-based Harris Health has broken ground at the Harris Health Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital campus in Houston on its $1.6 billion Northeast Houston Hospital.

Davie-based HCA Florida Healthcare, part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, has kicked off construction on its $231 million HCA Florida Gainesville (Fla.) Hospital.

Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth is opening a $37 million freestanding emergency department May 9 in Winter Haven, Fla.

Health systems are spending again on bricks-and-mortar expansion as their financial situation stabilizes and demand for care increases.

Cone Health opened its new and renovated heart center after a $34.2 million investment.

Bellaire, Texas-based Harris Health has filed plans with the state of Texas for a $1.6 billion hospital project at the Harris Health Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in Houston. 

AdventHealth Apopka (Fla.), part of Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth, opened a new $26.3 million patient floor on April 29 that increases the hospital's bed count to 158.

Midwest grocery chain Meijer has donated $3 million to support the construction of the Joan Secchia Children's Rehabilitation Hospital, which is slated to open in 2026 and will be Michigan's first freestanding rehab hospital for children. 

San Francisco-based UCSF Health broke ground April 27 on its new $4.3 billion UCSF Health Helen Diller Hospital in San Francisco.

Albuquerque, N.M.-based Lovelace Health System and Community Hospital Corporation have partnered to develop a 15-bed hospital in Los Lunas, N.M. 

From hospital construction projects to launching hospital-at-home programs, here are how six health systems are spending donation funds, as reported by Becker's since April 11: 

York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health and Emerus, a micro-hospital developer, broke ground April 23 on the WellSpan Shrewsbury Hospital in York County, Pa.