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Kris Hansen, CEO of Western Home Services, discusses the “household-like” care model behind the joint project with UnityPoint Health-Cedar Rapids. The senior living community is expected to open in 2023.

Nursing home leaders across the state have been working to increase the number of staff fully immunized against COVID-19. A federal mandate expected this month also aims to do the same thing -- but many across Iowa’s industry say the new rule could have a detrimental effect.

State’s death toll now at 6,848 since March 2020. Linn County reported 15 deaths, the most of any Iowa county, in the past week.

Auditor Rob Sand says the report released Wednesday shows Iowa’s managed care organizations were illegally denying care for Iowans and that the state needs to provide more oversight.

Two were killed and one person was injured following a head-on collision along Highway 150 in Buchanan County near Hazleton.

Elizabeth Deam, Mya Gourley, McKenna Mann and Ruby Stuessel from Girl Scout Troop 1969 earned the award in late August for a community project benefiting the Animal Welfare Friends in Monticello.

Health care systems statewide will need to continue supporting the front line staff currently responding to the ongoing pandemic, and take innovative steps to improve the strength of the workforce, local health care leaders said during the 2021 Iowa Ideas Conference hosted by The Gazette.

CDC officials have warned the U.S. could face an “early and possibly severe flu season” this year, prompting worry among local public health officials for widespread cases of both influenza and COVID-19 in the coming months

The Iowa Attorney General’s Office has signed an agreement with the University of Iowa Health Care to direct $3.8 million in settlement funds from opioid manufacturers and distributors. Under a new program announced Wednesday, UI Health Care providers will train more health care providers statewide to offer Medication for Addiction Treatment, or MAT, for those with opioid use disorder.

Case counts and hospitalizations continue to drop, but the COVID-19 death toll in Iowa rose this week as state public health officials confirm more fatalities as a result of the virus in recent weeks.

The Cedar Rapids Police Department says two individuals have non-life threatening injuries following what appears to be a targeted shooting Friday night. No arrests have been made.

Linn County Public Health has been awarded a $1.25 million five-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to address violence impacting adolescents and teens in the community.

It’s the highest total since Feb. 15, new state data shows.

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.

Booster shots as well as additional doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are available to eligible Iowans to help boost their immunity against the coronavirus. But how do you know if you qualify? Here’s what you need to know.