The number of Eastern Iowans needing or wanting emergency care has soared over the last two decades – as has the severity of the health issues patients are facing – cramping ERs, crowding wait rooms, and compelling hospitals to expand, renovate, and build.
An Eastern Iowa nursing home has been cited for 33 regulatory violations, some of which allegedly contributed to the death of a resident.
A group of nonprofit advocacy organizations is seeking to intervene in a lawsuit that challenges new, federally mandated staffing levels in nursing homes.
In a recent CDC study, the agency said that the prevention of human bird flu infections is critical to mitigating changes in the virus that could lead to a pandemic. The CDC advises that dairy workers wear PPE, but records obtained by Investigate Midwest show states with bird flu cases have different PPE responses.
Brian Thompson attended the University of Iowa from 1993 to 1997, earning a bachelors of business administration and accounting.
The State Appeal Board approved the settlements Tuesday.
In 2023, the total number of Iowans who died by suicide dropped from 581 to 496 — a success that researchers are trying to determine how to replicate. However, the portion of those suicide victims who were teenagers increased from 3.1 percent to 5.2 percent, or around 18 teen suicides in 2022, to 26 in 2023, according to data from the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services.
“I was trying not to cry. Her dad was trying not to freak out,” mom Ashley Huebner said. “I’m like, I can’t let her see that I’m upset. So they took the bed out of the room, I walked with her down the hall, and the next thing I know the doors were there. And then they took her.”
Disability rights advocates hope Iowa will honor them by preventing the kind of neglect that has plagued similar cemeteries at other shuttered facilities around the country.
In Iowa, and across the country, ambulance services have been struggling to attract and retain staff. Data from the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services shows that the number of certified EMTs in the state has decreased every year since 2018. But ambulance service professionals have been working to reverse that trend, and changes made to state law in 2021 may have been the first step in the right direction.
Just months ahead of opening its new $525.6 million hospital in North Liberty, University of Iowa Health Care is ramping up hiring for the 469,000-square-foot campus — promoting “innovative opportunities” across a range of disciplines in the new state-of-the-art facility.
Melissa Bates, 2024 Iowa Innovator of the Year, is set to launch a new respiratory device to ‘revolutionize’ lung health monitoring.
There has been a 38 percent decrease in abortions performed in the state since the implementation of Iowa’s six-week abortion ban, according to a report published Thursday.
Open house Saturday at ER that will begin seeing patients Dec. 2
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