Christ Hospital in Mount Auburn is building a new cardiac-care wing. The project is estimated to cost $77 million. Enquirer file

The biggest projects announced since 1995 and the year project was announced.

$135 million*: relocating Middletown Regional Hospital (2001)

$77 million: new cardiac wing at Christ Hospital (2000)

$72.5 million*: new patient tower, ER, outpatient surgery center at St. Elizabeth South (Dec. 2002)

$66 million: new clinical tower at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (2000)

$38 million: renovations and expansions at Dearborn County Hospital (2003)

$29 million: ER and other renovations at Bethesda North Hospital (2002)

*Spending figures not counted in Tristate totals because projects have not been detailed in required notices to state departments of health.