Articles Tagged: Hospitals

Iowa House lawmakers advanced legislation supporters say could provide a financial lifeline to Iowa’s small, rural hospitals that face closure.

A male nurse practitioner who died of a drug overdose at a hospital in Ottumwa sexually assaulted at least nine female patients while they were sedated, hospital and police officials said.

When Christina Anderson's mother started having chest pains in October, they rushed to the nearest emergency room in their hometown of Ottumwa, Iowa. Because of her mother's ovarian cancer diagnosis, Anderson assumed they would be seen within a reasonable time. Instead, their trip became a nine-hour odyssey.

A new report released this week by the Iowa Hospital Association shows hospitals across the state cared for 2.6 million people and employed more than 149,000 individuals, accounting for $8.8 billion in total wages, in 2021.

UI Health Care has reported a roughly $130 million increase in estimated construction costs to its North Liberty hospital campus, resulting in a 33 percent increase in its budget for the project. In all, the price tag is now more than $525 million. Hospital officials will ask for Board of Regents approval on the new budget in the July 27 meeting.

Corridor hospitals saw a decline in patients arriving in emergency rooms with fireworks-related injuries over the holiday weekend when compared to volumes in recent years. Cedar Rapids police also saw a decline in calls for services due to fireworks, but Iowa City totals remained the same when compared to previous years.

Family of man who died from an infection unrelated to COVID believes he would have had a better chance of surviving had his transfer to a larger hospital not been delayed because of the pandemic.

Officers were dispatched to hospital where men arrived with wounds and to call about a fight at around the same time

CEDAR RAPIDS – A new handheld device used by Cedar Rapids physicians in the operating room is helping better guide …

IOWA CITY – Given fervent opposition to a proposed $230 million University of Iowa Health Care hospital in North Liberty …

DES MOINES – The Iowa House on Wednesday approved two bills to increase access to health care, especially in rural …

Asher Brown sought a job as a mental health counselor for teens, hoping his experiences as a transgender adult would …

IOWA CITY – The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics – which last week became the first place in Iowa …

DES MOINES — Exhaustion. Physical and emotional exhaustion. That’s what Iowa’s front-line health care workers are feeling right now as …

A Tiffin man who had tinnitus – or ringing in his ears – and some hearing loss has filed a …