Health Care and Medicine

Mercy Medical Center broke ground Thursday on Hallmar Village, a 237-unit senior living community in northeast Cedar Rapids that officials hope will become a comprehensive center for the needs of aging Iowans.

Iowa reported 110 new COVID-19 cases and three deaths for the previous 24 hours as of noon Wednesday, according the

The delta variant is responsible for half of new cases across a swath that includes Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming.

The state’s seven-day average for new cases is 80

District Court Judge Mitchell Turner issued a ruling that declared the 2020 law unconstitutional. Abortion rights advocates had asserted it placed an undue burden on women seeking the medical procedure.

“Reentry anxiety refers to fear that can accompany letting go of the safeguards that protected us during the COVID-19 pandemic and our reentry into a world that has been changed by the virus,” Pawlak said. “This fear can manifest as a reluctance to switch back to pre-pandemic practices.”

The state reported 30 new virus cases on Monday, no new deaths

Effective June 24, UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s Hospital will expand its visitor hours and restrictions on visiting age will be lowered to include those aged 12 and older.

On multiple occasions between April and October 2017, Jennifer Bacor used her login credentials to access her ex-boyfriend’s protected private health information, according to the plea. In September 2017, Bacor, in a social media chat with another person, said she wanted primary custody of her two children so she could move to Las Vegas.

Experts say at least 70 percent of a population needs to be vaccinated in order to create herd immunity against the novel coronavirus. But as demand for the COVID-19 vaccine has dropped sharply in parts of the state, Iowa’s local public health officials aren’t confident their communities will reach that threshold.

Hospitalizations lowest since April 1 of 2020.

More than 44 percent of the state is fully vaccinated