Health Care and Medicine

Although the skywalk spanning Market Street connecting portions of the historic Mercy Hospital campus on Wednesday morning still boasted that 150-year-old name and its teal and white colors, a sign along the street below announced Mercy’s new owner and new name: University of Iowa Health Care "Downtown Campus.“

“It’s vital that we ensure that every dime of these settlement funds goes to help curb this deadly epidemic,” the Marion representative says.

The bill is intended to drive down costs for patients by encouraging them to shop for the best price among multiple providers.

Iowa's maternal death rate and infant mortality rate have climbed as birthing units have closed in recent years

Iowa Republican lawmakers advanced a bill on Wednesday that would allow health care providers, facilities and insurance companies to refuse medical care based on moral objections.

A week before Mercy Iowa City’s 150-year history comes to an end – with the bankrupt hospital transitioning to University of Iowa ownership Jan. 31 – the Board of Regents will meet Wednesday to consider new bylaws for the former Mercy campus, renamed UI Health Care Medical Center Downtown.

The bill comes as Iowa nursing homes face heightened scrutiny after multiple reports in the last year of deaths, abuse and neglect at long-term care facilities.

Kathi Anderson donated a kidney for Christopher Turnis, but not to him. The National Kidney Registry allows people to donate a kidney that isn’t a match to help a loved one, friend or stranger receive another kidney that is a match.

Keokuk’s shuttered hospital was among the fewer than two dozen rural hospitals that were converted into Rural Emergency Hospitals in the program’s first year. Now, advocates and lawmakers say tweaks to the law are necessary to lure more takers and keep health care in rural communities.

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.”