Articles Tagged: Hospitals

The 99-year-old Cedar Rapids retiree has been donating blood for 25 years. According to ImpactLife, Nadene Roberts is the nonprofit community blood center’s oldest donor and volunteer blood drive coordinator.

The hospital was given one year to correct the five deficiencies, all of which were deemed to be fully resolved in January 2023.

Iowa’s U.S. House members — all Republicans — voted Thursday to pass President Donald Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill, sending it to him to sign before the Fourth of July holiday weekend and just a few hours before Trump was set to speak in Des Moines at an event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds.

Open house is Saturday, with emergency room opening Aug. 6

Also, House rejects a bill related to topsoil and stormwater enforcement at construction projects

The 2023 Iowa Ideas conferences offers seven health care sessions over two days, covering topics that includes mental health cancer, and the needs of aging Iowans

An Iowa physician claims in a lawsuit that she was fired from a public hospital by administrators who encouraged employees to vote for Donald Trump and discriminated against those who didn’t share their religious beliefs.

Iowa House lawmakers advanced legislation supporters say could provide a financial lifeline to Iowa’s small, rural hospitals that face closure.

A male nurse practitioner who died of a drug overdose at a hospital in Ottumwa sexually assaulted at least nine female patients while they were sedated, hospital and police officials said.

When Christina Anderson's mother started having chest pains in October, they rushed to the nearest emergency room in their hometown of Ottumwa, Iowa. Because of her mother's ovarian cancer diagnosis, Anderson assumed they would be seen within a reasonable time. Instead, their trip became a nine-hour odyssey.

A new report released this week by the Iowa Hospital Association shows hospitals across the state cared for 2.6 million people and employed more than 149,000 individuals, accounting for $8.8 billion in total wages, in 2021.

UI Health Care has reported a roughly $130 million increase in estimated construction costs to its North Liberty hospital campus, resulting in a 33 percent increase in its budget for the project. In all, the price tag is now more than $525 million. Hospital officials will ask for Board of Regents approval on the new budget in the July 27 meeting.

Corridor hospitals saw a decline in patients arriving in emergency rooms with fireworks-related injuries over the holiday weekend when compared to volumes in recent years. Cedar Rapids police also saw a decline in calls for services due to fireworks, but Iowa City totals remained the same when compared to previous years.

Family of man who died from an infection unrelated to COVID believes he would have had a better chance of surviving had his transfer to a larger hospital not been delayed because of the pandemic.

Officers were dispatched to hospital where men arrived with wounds and to call about a fight at around the same time