In asking the court to dismiss the demand a receiver take control of Mercy – for a second time in the under two weeks since investor Preston Hollow Community Capital and master trustee Computershare Trust petitioned the court July 24 – hospital attorneys Thursday accused the plaintiffs of “insufficient service following deceptive and improper actions.”
After slipping last year to the lowest number of medical care specialties ranked among the Top 50 nationally in at least a decade, the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics again this year ranked in the same two specialties — but improved their ratings in the U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Hospitals” list made public today
Dr. Vincent Reid credits much of who he is today to a small lab in New York City, where he and other minorities were able to thrive through a rare oasis in a scientific world largely not built for them.
Kolofon Health startup growing quickly in Eastern Iowa
The five homes -- including one in Iowa City -- are deemed eligible for inclusion on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ national list of “special-focus facilities.”
A day after a Mercy Iowa City investor asked a Johnson County judge to appoint a receiver to take control of
Mercy Iowa City late Monday responded to a bondholder’s demand it be placed in a court-appointed receivership by disputing the arguments behind the receivership request and by calling into question the publicity tactics taken.
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.'"
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