Boston Children’s and Franciscan Children’s hospitals broke ground last week on the Hale Family Building at Franciscan Children’s campus in Brighton.

The building, funded through a $100 million donation from Rob and Karen Hale of Quincy, will contain 116 beds.

It will also house several services beyond inpatient psychiatric care, including an intensive outpatient program, a 14-bedroom acute treatment program, a dental suite, four operating rooms, a pharmacy, outpatient rehabilitation programs, and five outdoor play spaces. It is expected to open in 2029.

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This article from State House News Service that ran in the Boston Globe details the Public Health Council’s decision on Wednesday to approve Beth Israel Lahey Health’s $80 million expansion project on Lahey Clinic’s main campus in Burlington, Mass.

The project involves a new inpatient unit with 36 medical/surgical beds and eight observation beds, a new cardiac catheterization/electrophysiology procedure room at the hospital, and a new computed tomography unit for the hospital’s satellite clinic in Peabody.

The article quotes Teryl Smith, director of DPH’s Bureau of Healthcare Safety and Quality, as saying the expansion will ease the hospital’s capacity constraints, mitigate emergency department boarding, and keep up with heightened patient demand. Smith’s presentation showed that Lahey Clinic “consistently exceeded” its licensed capacity, with the average occupancy rate hitting 114% in 2025.