Daily News Podcast
Daily NewslettersThanks to grant funding, Witwer Children’s Therapy in Cedar Rapids has new equipment that mimics riding a horse. Witwer is currently the only therapy clinic in the state that uses the MiraColt in sessions.
116 3rd St SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
Thanks to grant funding, Witwer Children’s Therapy in Cedar Rapids has new equipment that mimics riding a horse. Witwer is currently the only therapy clinic in the state that uses the MiraColt in sessions.
Cases, hospitalizations and deaths all down fromthe previous week
The state reports Linn County recorded three deaths and 327 new cases of the virus - up from 311 new cases last week. Johnson County also saw an uptick in cases - 207 over the last week, compared with 165 the previous week.
An increase in COVID-19, RSV and influenza cases with high levels of community transmission have prompted hospitals to require masks for visitors again.
After the University of Iowa’s chosen finalist in October declined an offer to succeed Brooks Jackson as vice president for medical affairs of UI Health Care and dean of its Carver College of Medicine, the campus is relaunching its search for a new head of its sprawling health care enterprise.
Linn County this week reported four new virus deaths
The study took place between September of 2019 and July of 2021 at trauma centers in Iowa City, Iowa; Miami and Jacksonville, Florida; Charlotte, North Carolina; Baltimore; Worcester, Massachusetts; and Sacramento, California. Medical examiners at four of the sites also took part.
The Pfizer pill that’s prevented many people infected with COVID-19 from being hospitalized or dying, has been free, courtesy of the federal government. But the government will stop footing the bill in the coming months, shifting the cost to patients, many of whom are at the highest risk of severe illness.
3,469 cases up 28% from previous week
Unlike methadone, the traditional medication to wean people off heroin or other opioids, buprenorphine can be prescribed at primary care clinics and dispensed at neighborhood pharmacies.
Browse, sort or search University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics employee salaries for fiscal year 2022. Total pay shown may include travel and subsistence reimbursement.
Adding to the growing list of construction and renovation projects University of Iowa Health Care is pursuing in and around its campus, UIHC now is asking an outside development team to design, plan and build it a new primary care medical office building in Iowa City. Competing hospitals are concerned, saying primary care needs in the area are already well-served.
Over a budget year in which Mercy Iowa City sought a new managing partner, entertained a takeover offer from University of Iowa Health Care, and tried to climb back from tens of millions in pandemic-incurred losses, new documents made public last week show finances for the Iowa City-based hospital only worsened.
Linn County also added three coronavirus deaths in the past week
