More than 15 years after U.S. News & World Report started ranking the nation’s children’s hospitals by the specialty services they offer, the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital this year achieved a top-50 ranking in nine of 11 categories.
University of Iowa Health Care on Wednesday announced it is expanding its air transport partnership with Air Methods -- a private medical helicopter company that recently emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
As Iowa legislators continue to debate how best to use more than $25 million intended for treatment and prevention of opioid use disorder, individual organizations across the state are working to support addiction recovery efforts.
State lawmakers should increase taxes on tobacco and restrict the use of indoor tanning beds by minors to help reduce new instances of cancer in Iowa, according to an Iowa Ideas panel of experts.
The state of Iowa, where nursing homes have compiled one of the nation’s worst records for staffing-level violations, has joined 19 other states in suing the Biden administration to block the implementation of new staffing requirements.
University of Iowa Health Care’s new $280 million deal to expand its cancer-care reach into Central and Western Iowa is about better serving patients in the midst of a statewide “cancer crisis” and is “not a play to have more and more patients come to us in Iowa City,” UIHC officials told the Board of Regents on Tuesday.
A decade after the Flint, Michigan, water crisis raised alarms about the continuing dangers of lead in tap water, President Joe Biden is setting a 10-year deadline for cities across the nation to replace their lead pipes, finalizing an aggressive approach aimed at ensuring that drinking water is safe for all Americans.
University of Iowa Health Care is seeking Board of Regents approval to buy a 43-year-old community-based cancer-care business with 22 locations statewide for a proposed purchase price of $280 million.
Barbara Hughes had a long life, ‘recognized she was fortunate’
Future UnityPoint facilities in Waterloo, Hiawatha are on hold while Bettendorf application is pending.
Adding to nearly $1 billion in construction University of Iowa Health Care is pursuing across its main Iowa City campus and new North Liberty site, system officials Wednesday aired preliminary plans to spend more than $25 million upgrading its new downtown campus to meet UIHC standards.
Two years after first mentioning the prospect of building a new “health sciences research facility” on campus, University of Iowa Health Care this week aired more details -- including the project’s focus on cancer.
Instead of conducting a public search for a chief administrative officer to lead its new $525.6 million hospital in North Liberty, University of Iowa Health Care has appointed longtime administrator Amy O’Deen to the position.
University of Iowa Health Care earlier this summer began shopping for “inpatient telehealth products and solutions currently on the market to support inpatient teleconsult, telestroke, telesitting and virtual nursing workflows.”
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