It is the first statewide assessment of Iowa streams
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It is the first statewide assessment of Iowa streams
When Bradley Haws takes the reins as University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics CEO on Nov. 29 -- following a stint as UIHC chief financial officer two years ago -- he’ll make a $1.1 million starting salary, with the chance for $385,000 more in incentive pay.
Continuing its local and regional explosion in growth – including a pending $28 million purchase of Mercy Iowa City – the University of Iowa next week will ask Board of Regents permission to move forward with another $36.5 million in health care-related construction, including a $17.5 million “new road” paving the way for a $1 billion inpatient tower.
Any Iowa hospital or clinic seeking Medicaid payment for providing an abortion would need approval from the state’s most prominent abortion opponent: Gov. Kim Reynolds. In more than six years as governor, she has never been asked to approve a Medicaid payment for an abortion.
Pharmacies across Iowa have closed at an alarming rate over the past decade-plus, partly because insurance payouts don't cover drug costs. Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and colleagues this week introduced a proposal that would tackle practices used by pharmacy benefit managers that drive up costs for prescription medications.
Cedar, Benton, Ida and Shelby voters OK tax for improved ambulance service.
In a return paired with a side of reconnection, former University of Iowa Health Care Chief Financial Officer Bradley Haws — who left two years ago for the CFO post at Emory Healthcare — has been chosen to come back as UI Hospitals & Clinics CEO, a role vacated by Suresh Gunasekaran in early 2022.
With little debate or discord — after months of twists and turns and objections — a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge on Monday approved the sale of Iowa City’s only community hospital Mercy Iowa City to the University of Iowa for $28 million.
The state of Iowa will consider paying $2 million to the daughters of a Muscatine woman who died during an MRI at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in 2018 from an allergic reaction to the contrast dye administered intravenously.
Two years ago, lawmakers passed a bill allowing voters in counties to declare EMS an essential service within their county and agree to pay taxes to support it. But few counties have done that yet.
A newly launched, partially online program at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids is making it possible for Iowa students living in rural areas or who have busy work schedules to more easily pursue EMT certification.
As Monday’s final sale hearing approaches in the historic and heated bankruptcy of Iowa City’s oldest and only-remaining community hospital, precarious deals are being tested by objections and rising tempers – including from Mercy Hospital partners and creditors unlikely to get the millions they’re due.
Fifteen Republican governors, led by Nebraska’s Jim Pillen of Nebraska and Iowa’s Kim Reynolds, are adding on to criticism of a proposed federal nursing home staffing rule.
Veteran suicide rates have declined in recent years, but they are still higher than the general population. Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough encouraged veterans to use new mental health services available through the the COMPACT Act.
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