Richmond, Va.-based VCU Health has decided not to move forward with plans to build a $350 million, seven-story research building and to instead build a new dental school facility, the Richmond-Times Dispatch reported Feb. 21.

Hawkinsville, Ga.-based Taylor Regional Hospital opened its new $6 million emergency room, 13WMAZ reported Feb. 20.

Aurora, Ill.-based VNA Health Care received $500,000 in federal funds for the construction of a new 14,000-square-foot facility in Joliet, Ill.

Inflationary pressures are continuing to affect both the budgets and timing of a number of planned healthcare projects. Here is a sample of such affected projects since Becker'sreported on similar delays at the end of 2022.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently distributed $49.6 million in funds to healthcare organizations across Western New York, The Buffalo News reported Feb. 15.

Costs of window replacement at Iowa City-based University of Iowa Children's Stead Family Children’s Hospital have tripled to $45 million after workers found that the number of floors with damaged windows was nine instead of two, The Gazette reported Feb. 15.

Cleveland Clinic London will open a second outpatient facility in the fall, adding to its first London outpatient facility — opened in September 2021 — and its $1 billion, 184-bed hospital that opened in March 2022. 

Pizza company Domino's wrapped up its St. Jude "Thanks and Giving" campaign Jan. 8 after raising $13 million for the Memphis, Tenn.-based pediatric research hospital. 

Duluth, Minn.-based St. Luke's debuted a new $5.2 million, 16,000-square-foot obstetrics and gynecology clinic a year after announcing plans to create the clinic, the Pine Journal reported Feb. 15.

More than $658 million in state funding will be used to support 127 projects designed to transform New York's healthcare system, Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a Feb. 15 news release. 

Construction costs at the new University of Chicago Medicine cancer hospital have grown 29 percent, from $633 million to $815 million due to design changes and inflation, the Chicago Tribune reported Feb. 15.

After months of community input, University of Chicago Medicine submitted an application to state regulators, updating its original plans to build an $815 million standalone cancer hospital, Chicago Sun-Times reported Feb. 15. 

Durango, Colo.-based Axis Health System purchased an old payment processing company building for $18 million, intending to turn it into a new location for patient care beginning in 2024, The Durango Herald reported Feb. 14.

Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina is planning to build a new emergency and primary care facility on Seabrook Island, S.C.

Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health has filed paperwork to build a 54-bed inpatient behavioral hospital for pediatric patients in Granville County, the Triangle Business Journal reported Feb. 14.

A former Kindred Healthcare building in Phoenix sold for $14 million, the Phoenix Business Journal reported Feb. 14.

Several hospital construction projects recently have been completed, announced or advanced. Becker's Hospital Review has reported on these seven since Feb. 1:

Baptist Health has teamed with Parata Systems, an automated pharmacy technology company, to build a central fill mail-order specialty pharmacy that will serve all of Baptist's nine hospitals.

Dunkirk, N.Y.-based Brooks-TLC Hospital is calling for a new $71 million hospital in Fredonia as part of a plan to save the hospital, The Buffalo News reported Feb. 12. 

Scaffolding used for construction collapsed due to high winds at Daytona Beach, Fla.-based Halifax Hospital, WFTV9 reported Feb. 12.