Articles Tagged: IowaIdeas: Healthcare

After more than a year of emergencies, Iowa hospitals are reflecting on lessons learned from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and other concurrent events, including the derecho.

Throughout the course of the pandemic, Iowans have experienced more anxiety, depression and negative effects on their mental health. Local providers are working to help residents address those conditions through free services. Without it, the loss and stress and disconnect could have “a cumulative effect” on their overall well-being.

COVID-19 exacerbated slashed budgets and low staffing that challenged Iowa’s public health workforce, but the high stakes they faced throughout the pandemic response has left many workers burned out. Experts are worried the workforce shortage could worsen as a result.

The COVID-19 pandemic challenged the state’s health care system in truly unique ways as elective and preventive care was put …

The COVID-19 pandemic and racial injustice protests following the murder of George Floyd brought the disparities that communities of color …

Prescription drug prices is a pocketbook issue with voters, but progress in controlling prescription drug pricing has been difficult to …

With Iowa’s rural health providers seeing challenges even in the best of times, the coronavirus pandemic has brought forth an …

The elements of 2020 are ingredients for a dramatic increase in mental health issues across the state. Quarantine fatigue, political …

The coronavirus pandemic has created an especially challenging set of conditions for delivering care to Iowa’s aging populations, who are …

With EMS not considered an essential service, providing emergency medical services in rural Iowa is becoming an increasing challenge. Lower …

CEDAR RAPIDS – Policy experts said Thursday they are optimistic that state and federal governments are going to keep working …

Even as the nation’s hospitals and health care workers have become the focal point of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the …

The novel coronavirus pandemic has been a game-changer for telehealth in Iowa. Health care practitioners have adopted telehealth in wide …

Two hundred ninety-six percent. That’s how much the gonorrhea rate in Des Moines County in southeast Iowa increased between 2016 …

Editor’s note: Iowans’ Ideas is a guest column featuring the views of different Iowans each edition of Iowa Ideas magazine. …