University of Iowa Health Care’s new $280 million deal to expand its cancer-care reach into Central and Western Iowa is about better serving patients in the midst of a statewide “cancer crisis” and is “not a play to have more and more patients come to us in Iowa City,” UIHC officials told the Board of Regents on Tuesday.
Future UnityPoint facilities in Waterloo, Hiawatha are on hold while Bettendorf application is pending.
Grant is lead gift in St. Luke’s $4M capital campaign
A free program in Cedar Rapids is equipping parents with tools to help their children develop healthy behavioral skills.
Casey Greene will become market president for UnityPoint Health-Cedar Rapids later this month as current president and chief executive officer Michelle Niermann assumes a role as chief operating officer overseeing hospitals in five cities.
After slipping last year to the lowest number of medical care specialties ranked among the Top 50 nationally in at least a decade, the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics again this year ranked in the same two specialties — but improved their ratings in the U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Hospitals” list made public today
“I don't think I've ever gone a week here on my unit for four years without being physically assaulted,” said UIHC registered nurse Alex Kestrel, who works in the geriatric psychiatry unit. “I get punched in the face pretty much every week by my patients.”
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.
Both would preserve brands but seek administrative efficiencies
Adding to the growing list of construction and renovation projects University of Iowa Health Care is pursuing in and around its campus, UIHC now is asking an outside development team to design, plan and build it a new primary care medical office building in Iowa City. Competing hospitals are concerned, saying primary care needs in the area are already well-served.
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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