Iowa Department of Health and Human Services documents high COVID-19 activity and moderate influenza activity.
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Iowa Department of Health and Human Services documents high COVID-19 activity and moderate influenza activity.
Even in states where laws protect minors’ access to gender-affirming care, malpractice insurance premiums are keeping small and independent clinics from treating patients.
With the $28 million sale of Mercy Iowa City to the University of Iowa just over two weeks from closing, the 150-year-old community hospital’s largest bondholders are seeking court affirmation they will get the vast majority of that money “promptly.”
The new chief integration officer that University of Iowa Health Care has appointed to manage its complex merger with Mercy Iowa City — following UIHC’s $28 million bankruptcy acquisition of the community hospital — could earn $780,000 this year, according to her professional services agreement.
When interviewed by Iowa investigators, the board alleges, Paye couldn’t name any of her instructors or classmates at Med-Life, although she passed the national exam on her first attempt before being granted a license to practice in Iowa.
As a growing number of states have moved to expand coverage for new moms under Medicaid to 12 months in the last three years, Iowa lags behind as one of only a handful of states that does not offer the extended coverage.
Browse, sort or search University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics employee salaries for fiscal year 2023.
Medicare is prohibited from covering the high cost — but will that change?
Among the complexities of a Mercy Iowa City bankruptcy sale to the University of Iowa is its electronic medical system transition – with any gap or abrupt termination of system operations posing “significant” threat to Mercy and its patients.
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.”
The number of Iowans who have up-to-date COVID-19 vaccinations has plummeted in recent months, just as the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services reports spread of the disease is “very high”.
While the CDC recently announced that U.S. suicide rates are at the highest levels since 1941, a University of Iowa expert says there’s reason to believe young people may be successfully reducing the stigma surrounding mental health issues.
When the University of Iowa finalizes its purchase of the 150-year-old Mercy Iowa City campus, it will be renamed “University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center Downtown,” according to a rebranding UIHC announced Thursday.
Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids has notified 97,000 patients about a security breach that might have compromised their personal information -- including name, birth date, address, social security number, and medical record information like patient account number and dates of admission, discharge, and examination.
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