The Iowa Board of Nursing has suspended the license of a nursing home caregiver accused of accepting $8,000 from a patient, being under the influence while on duty, theft and drug offenses.
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The Iowa Board of Nursing has suspended the license of a nursing home caregiver accused of accepting $8,000 from a patient, being under the influence while on duty, theft and drug offenses.
The recreation and wellness center could include pickleball courts and an indoor track and would be open to the public. It would be operated by YMCA and located on the district’s campus across from Prairie Crest Elementary in southwest Cedar Rapids.
Chief Nurse Executive Kim Hunter was named the interim CEO when Suresh Gunasekaran left in the campus in 2022 to become head of the University of California San Francisco Academic Health System.
"If you would have asked me before this, had I ever had a stressful day? I would've been like, 'Every day is stressful,'" she said. "Now I'm like, 'You don't know the meaning of the word.'"
Iowa has a wide variety of pollinators, from insects like bees and butterflies to other animals, like hummingbirds and bats, and 16 of them are being featured this month in 15 different Iowa City parks.
Available at the Cedar Valley Humane Society
A Marengo company whose employees were injured in a fiery blast last December has failed to pay a nearly $96,000 fine for workplace safety violations.
Also, changes are coming to Iowa City’s urban chicken policy.
A realtor selling the University of Iowa’s 326,000-square-foot Mayflower Residence Hall for $45 million said four “very qualified, interested people are actively pursuing it.” The realtor said only one interested person early on raised the idea of tearing down the eight-story dorm, which, given zoning constraints, may not be feasible.
Republicans point to recent election successes as proof that they are following the will of Iowa voters. But Democrats say this new law, which bans abortions after fetal cardiac activity is detected, and the next election will be different.
ANKENY, Iowa (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Saturday he would consider Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds as a potential running mate, should he win the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, and dismissed former President Donald Trump’s recent complaints about her as “totally out of hand.”
Synthetic chemicals that persist indefinitely in the environment have been detected in the water of several deep wells in parts of Iowa with porous bedrock, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Karst bedrock is most prevalent in northeast and east-central Iowa.
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