An Iowa nursing home worker who admitted stealing a resident’s painkillers says the stress of watching more than a dozen COVID-19 patients die alone contributed to her use of cocaine and other drugs.
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An Iowa nursing home worker who admitted stealing a resident’s painkillers says the stress of watching more than a dozen COVID-19 patients die alone contributed to her use of cocaine and other drugs.
New weekly COVID-19 cases counts increased again as of Wednesday. Iowans and non-Iowans are still getting their COVID-19 vaccine and booster shots, but the vaccination rate still lingers below 70 percent, new state data shows.
The expansion with Mana Capital Acquisition will make the company a publicly listed and traded entity on NASDAQ.
UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids has announced a $25 million project at the Nassif Heart Center that is set to begin later this summer. The project will consolidate heart and vascular services within the same space and will expand existing services.
QHC Facilities, which owns eight skilled-nursing facilities and two assisted-living centers in Iowa including in Marion, filed for bankruptcy protection in late December.
Effective June 1, the Cedar Rapids office of the Iowa Harm Reduction Coalition has closed its doors due to a major funding loss. The organization’s leadership will continue to offer deliveries and mobile services to clients.
Statewide, the number of patients in Iowa hospitals with COVID-19 reached 180 as of Wednesday, up from 139 patients last week. It’s the highest total seen since early March, but still far below the omicron variant surge in January.
An Iowa nursing home where a resident was found dead in a pool of blood last summer after a series of falls has been fined $18,000 by the state.
As families grapple with the ongoing shortage of baby formula nationwide, more parents are turning to social media groups that facilitate peer-to-peer breast milk donations.
The innovation lab at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids helped build an adaptive keyboard for Lotus Friedman, a 13-year-old from Dubuque who was paralyzed from the waist down after a skiing accident earlier this year. The ability to play her favorite game is a reprieve from day-to-day hospital life, she said.
Work is underway to “fine tune” the COVID-19 vaccines to make them more effective against emerging variants, but a strategy scientists hope to employ includes offering flu and coronavirus boosters in a single vaccine.
Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids has named Dr. Timothy Quinn as the hospital’s new president and CEO effective Jan. 1, 2023. The family medicine physician currently is executive vice president and chief of clinical operations.
HACAP Food Reservoir has partnered with area health care providers to launch Food is Medicine, a program that screens for food insecurity and provides immediate assistance to patients in need.
The state public health department has reported new COVID-19 case counts have increased again, reaching 3,847 new infections in the past seven days. Hospitalizations also continued to increase this week.
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