Given the uncertainty of Mercy Iowa City, Steindler now is considering performing surgery at hospitals in Cedar Rapids too – including UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s Hospital and Mercy Medical Center, both Cedar Rapids, and other in-patient hospitals regionally.
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Patients say small gestures can have an out-sized impact when going through cancer treatment -- even if they’re from complete strangers.
UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids on Thursday became the region’s most recent health care system to announce plans to open an off-campus emergency department – with its new Marion site expected to open in summer 2024. That’s just miles from a Mercy Medical Center facility also announced this week.
Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids has announced it will be opening a new emergency services center in Marion, next to the MercyCare Marion clinic.
Although the University of Iowa stripped orthopedics from its second application to build a new hospital in North Liberty – after critics of the first, denied application slammed its focus on orthopedics and state officials cited the heavy orthopedics bent in its rejection – UI Health Care officials now are calling the project an “orthopedic hospital.”
An increase in COVID-19, RSV and influenza cases with high levels of community transmission have prompted hospitals to require masks for visitors again.
RSV, a respiratory virus that disproportionately affects children, is on the rise harder and faster than usual this year. Here’s what you need to know to help prevent it and recognize the signs.
Colleges, universities, and trade schools are ramping up nurse-related partnerships, scholarships, internships, and mentorships in hopes of meeting the workforce’s increasingly dire needs.
Eight area nonprofits received a total of $150,000 from Mercy’s new Health Equity Fund
Among four proposals Mercy Iowa City entertained last year in its search for a new partner was one from University of Iowa Health Care offering more than $605 million to take ownership of the community hospital and make it the “centerpiece” of a new UIHC “community division.”
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