Health Care and Medicine

Asserting Iowa City’s 150-year-old Mercy Hospital is in “financial freefall” and headed toward closure, the investor and holder of $41.8 million Mercy borrowed in 2018 has asked a judge to “appoint a receiver on an emergency basis” to take operational control over the hospital facilities.

Even though a judge’s ruling this week blocked enforcement of a new abortion law in Iowa, the process that will draft rules for the law’s implementation will continue.

Court claim alleges the large jury award was used to to help persuade state lawmakers to pass tort-reform legislation that would save insurance companies millions by capping damages for malpractice.

Families of children with complex medical conditions needing to travel out of state to receive specialized care would have fewer hoops to jump through under proposed bill.

The Iowa Board of Nursing has suspended the license of a nursing home caregiver accused of accepting $8,000 from a patient, being under the influence while on duty, theft and drug offenses.

Chief Nurse Executive Kim Hunter was named the interim CEO when Suresh Gunasekaran left in the campus in 2022 to become head of the University of California San Francisco Academic Health System.

"If you would have asked me before this, had I ever had a stressful day? I would've been like, 'Every day is stressful,'" she said. "Now I'm like, 'You don't know the meaning of the word.'"

Distrust of public health authorities, who say drinking raw milk is dangerous, fuels demand for unpasteurized milk products, leaders on both sides of the issue say.

Cedar Rapids clinic named for Jewel and Jim Plumb

The Hills started giving to the hospital in 1978

According to state records, Charles U. Wolfe worked for Cottage Grove Place in Cedar Rapids as a full-time resident assistant from October 2022 until he was fired in April.

“I don't think I've ever gone a week here on my unit for four years without being physically assaulted,” said UIHC registered nurse Alex Kestrel, who works in the geriatric psychiatry unit. “I get punched in the face pretty much every week by my patients.”