Healthcare competition is nothing new in Northern Colorado. Banner and University of Colorado Health — formerly Poudre Valley Health System — have faced off for years, according to an article on the Coloradoan website.

Banner and UCHealth plan to spend more than a quarter-billion dollars on construction projects in Northern Colorado in the near future.

Banner broke ground last year on what will become a 28-acre medical campus officially called Banner Fort Collins Medical Center. UCHealth opened its new $20 million cancer center in June, and PVH is gearing up for a $102 million renovation that includes an emergency department to replace a facility that today sees many more patients than it was built for.

Healthcare construction projects

Poudre Valley Hospital: $102 million

• Demolition of A building, the oldest portion of PVH

• New emergency department

• Remodeled neonatal intensive care unit

• New helicopter landing pad on roof

• Expanded orthopedic unit

Banner Fort Collins Medical Center: $86 million

• A new, 145,000-square-foot, two-story hospital south of Harmony Road

• 24 inpatient beds, emergency department, labor and delivery rooms, medical imaging, women's services, and surgical and lab services

• Expected opening: April 2015

McKee Medical Center, Loveland: $2.8 million

• Expansion of microbiology core laboratory, which will serve as a regional destination for handling microbiology tests for McKee, North Colorado Medical Center, Fort Collins and hospitals in Wyoming, Nebraska and Susanville, California

North Colorado Medical Center: $60 million

• Upgrading HVAC, power/gas, steam and chilled water distribution, waste lift station; new lab and kitchen, dining area, patient rooms, cancer center, primary IT data center, MRI, pharmacy

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