Get to Know Gives Back talks to Joe Lock from Eastern Iowa Health Center about the services they provide and what you can do to support their mission.
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Get to Know Gives Back talks to Joe Lock from Eastern Iowa Health Center about the services they provide and what you can do to support their mission.
The University of Iowa’s Iowa Nurse Innovators Program connects nurses to the resources and expertise they need to turn workarounds into specially crafted, even marketable, solutions. With early successes from UIHC nurses currently getting off the ground, the program is working to reach health care professionals across the state.
Organ donation saves hundreds of lives every year across the United States, and the Iowa Donor Network — the nonprofit that organizes organ donation in Iowa — is working to increase that number. .
Planned Parenthood announced Friday it would close four of its women's reproductive health centers in large Iowa cities -- including in Cedar Rapids.
A central Iowa adult is confirmed to have the first case of measles in the state since 2019, according to the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services.
A government report released on Thursday covering wide swaths of American health and wellness reflects some of the most contentious views on vaccines, the nation's food supply, pesticides and prescription drugs held by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Iowa, with 3.2 million residents, has a total of about 760 inpatient mental health beds that are staffed to care for patients. The Treatment Advocacy Center says the “absolute minimum” of such beds would translate to about 960 for Iowa’s population, and the optimal number would be about 1,920.
To resolve 2023 lawsuit, new services will be offered to children in the state with serious emotional and behavioral conditions.
The oft-cited Cancer in Iowa report that for several years has found the state to have the second-highest and fastest-growing rate of new cancers in the nation next year will start breaking out pediatric numbers.
Iowa Dental Board records indicate the board recently charged dentist Terra Hickey of Center Point with practicing in a manner that is harmful or detrimental to the public.
While supporters say it will help struggling rural pharmacies, opponents say it drives up costs for Iowans by tens of millions a year.
Newly reported federal data shows the overwhelming majority of nursing homes in Iowa and the United States are operating with too few staff to meet residents’ basic needs.
After the emergency team in Hiawatha stabilized her, she was transported by ambulance to Mercy Medical Center in downtown Cedar Rapids. Read Jill’s inspiring story.
The Gazette will host a series of free, virtual panel discussions this week aimed at exploring Iowa’s cancer rates, the research being done, and the threat posed to scientific research in the state by proposals to slash federal spending.
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