Arthritis in the shoulder can cause debilitating pain and limit your quality of life and ability to do everyday tasks. Luckily, improvements and innovations in total shoulder replacement surgery have made the procedure a reliable and effective way to relieve pain and improve function in patients.
A few months after 75-year-old Steindler Orthopedic Clinic in March vacated its longtime home in east Iowa City for a new 100,000-square-foot clinic and surgery center in North Liberty, University of Iowa Health Care is eyeing Steindler’s old digs as a new home for its Department of Family and Community Medicine.
You don’t need to live with that nagging soreness in a shoulder, elbow or other joint.
The Steindler Orthopedic Clinic Surgery Center facility opened in North Liberty with a ribbon cutting and tours Wednesday.
Three years after getting the state OK to build an ambulatory surgery center near the booming North Liberty-Tiffin border, Steindler Orthopedic Clinic is two weeks from opening a 100,000-square-foot facility on March 24.
You may not have heard about orthobiologics, but the regenerative medicine may be your answer to treat pain coming from your muscles, bones or joints.
Without discussion or debate, the State Health Facilities Council on Tuesday unanimously agreed that Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids doesn’t require a certificate of need to establish an offsite location in North Liberty.
Adding to its growing clinical enterprise and footprint across Eastern Iowa, Steindler Orthopedic Clinic on Monday debuted its eighth location — this one in Cedar Rapids, where about one-third of its clientele reside.
Carpal tunnel syndrome can cause persistent pain and discomfort that makes everyday activities a challenge. That enduring pain does not have to linger, according to orthopedic surgeons.
As part of the University of Iowa’s takeover of Mercy Iowa City – which became official Wednesday and continued UI Health Care’s accelerating expansion statewide – it’s assuming more than 1,000 of Mercy’s contracts, costing $3.4 million to “cure” amounts the former community hospital owed under those agreements.
About halfway through construction of the University of Iowa’s new 469,000-square-foot hospital campus in North Liberty, its orthopedics department this week shared more details about plans to move its clinical, surgical, research, and educational operations to the Forevergreen Road site — further backing his characterization of the campus as an “orthopedic hospital.”
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