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Aerial satellite map showing two highlighted land purchase parcels near an interstate highway interchange.

Sarasota Memorial's hospital board approved a $60 million Manatee County land deal and a 54,000-square-foot Venice outpatient cancer center lease on Sept. 22, adding to an $82.5 million rehab pavilion already under way as the health system invests more than $1 billion in regional expansion.

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Aerial satellite map showing two highlighted land parcels near SR 64 and I-75.

Sarasota Memorial buys 120 acres near I-75 for Manatee campus

Sarasota Memorial's governing board approved a nearly $60 million purchase of 120 acres near I-75 and SR 64 in Manatee County, land that could eventually house a full medical campus with a freestanding ER as its first phase.

Person seated at a robotic surgical console with two others in scrubs observing.

Lakewood Ranch Medical Center adds $500K robotic urology system

Lakewood Ranch Medical Center is adding a $500,000 Hydros Robotic System for Aquablation therapy, a minimally invasive treatment for enlarged prostates, continuing the hospital's broader push to upgrade its urology department and robotic surgery program.

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