These are the top stories breaking in July.

Hospital

• St. Luke’s Boise Tower reached full height with a topping-out ceremony, marked by hundreds of signatures on the final beam.
• Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital West announced a $120 million renovation of its Nashville campus.
• Prisma Health broke ground on a $180 million medical park in Fountain Inn set to expand healthcare access in upstate South Carolina.
• Ascension Saint Thomas broke ground on Clarksville’s first new hospital since 2005, a $148.5 million project.
• Jupiter Medical Center broke ground on a neighborhood hospital campus in Avenir, eliminating a 10-mile ER trip for area residents.
• Saint Alphonsus broke ground on a Nampa expansion that will more than double its Idaho campus.
• St. Vincent’s 14-story hospital in Billings received a $5 million pediatrics gift from the Fortin Family Foundation as construction advanced toward a 2029 completion.
• Novant Health filed state permits for a new hospital in Berkeley County’s Nexton development.
• UNC Health, Novant, and Atrium submitted competing certificate-of-need proposals for the Wilmington market.
• SVMC’s CEO outlined a workforce strategy centered on a new family medicine residency program and Putnam Block development in Bennington.

ER

• A single donor’s gift closed a $16 million emergency department campaign at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton.
• Elkhart General Hospital announced a $37 million expansion of its Emergency and Trauma Center.

Rehabilitation

• Encompass Health is set to break ground on a rehabilitation hospital in Post Falls, Idaho this fall.

Oncology

• Sinai Hospital opened the Mandy & Dennis Weinman Cancer Building in Baltimore.

Psychiatric

• Texas opened a 292-bed psychiatric hospital in Dallas as part of a $2.5 billion statewide behavioral health investment.

Neonatal Intensive Care

• Geisinger Community Medical Center in Scranton is adding seven new NICU beds.

Urgent Care

• A new urgent care clinic opened in Bangor, Maine, designed to address the city’s primary care shortage with expanded service capabilities.

Research

• Tulane University announced plans to redevelop New Orleans’ long-vacant Charity Hospital into a $500 million bioscience hub by 2029.

Pediatrics

• A 133,000 SF pediatric specialty care center in Wentzville will anchor a first-of-its-kind sleep lab and a dedicated young athlete center.