University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics CEO Suresh Gunasekaran — just three years after arriving — has been recruited away to the No. 9-ranked University of California San Francisco Academic Health System.
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The current surge in COVID-19 cases has resulted in more delays in health care for the average Iowan “than there were at any other time during the pandemic,” the CEO of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics said this week. Not only are health care systems facing high COVID-19 hospitalization rates, but more staff are calling in sick than ever before.
University of Iowa officials on Wednesday disclosed plans over next decade to buy Old Capitol Town Center, sell its 109-year-old downtown Jefferson Building, modernize its memorial union, replace its IMU parking ramp, and upgrade its athletics facilities.
Talks between Steindler Orthopedic Clinic and an unnamed hospital system to build a new inpatient hospital alongside an ambulatory surgery center in what’s fast becoming a health care hub in North Liberty are ongoing — but they’re not moving fast enough to merit state consideration at this time.
A lot of men who end up in University of Iowa urologist Amy Pearlman’s office are in their 30s, 40s, or 50s and are having symptoms. They’re fatigued. They can’t get or hold an erection. They have pain. Or a lump. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Even as crews and cranes are digging and developing a new 469,000-square-foot hospital on 60 acres in North Liberty, University of Iowa Health Care is airing plans for another tower on its main campus in Iowa City – along with a new College of Medicine building and clinic.
Dr. George Weiner, who’s led the 41-year-old University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center for over half its existence, recently announced plans to step down after 24 years.
With a growing array of direct-to-consumer genetics companies enticing holiday shoppers to surprise loved ones with “the gift that brings families together,” University of Iowa experts are warning DNA tests sometimes can do the opposite — and buyers should beware of unintended consequences.
Patients with Alzheimer ’s disease appear to be more likely to die from COVID-19 than those who don’t have the neurodegenerative disease, according to new University of Iowa research that could hold implications for ethical vaccine distribution and global policy decisions.
In a small dark room at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in November 2017 — just days after Thanksgiving — Alisha and Ross Stottmeister felt the devastating crush of unexpected silence.
Iowa’s already strained health care system could be in for a rough winter after officials with the University of Iowa Health Care say flu cases have rapidly increased in the past two weeks, raising the possibility that the state could face “twindemic” spikes of flu and COVID-19.
Even with COVID crippling community services and hampering projects and initiatives last year, a “heart safe community campaign” in honor of the late University of Iowa cardiology professor Richard Kerber did not skip a beat — so to speak.
The first young Iowans got the first shots of the two-dose COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday following the approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for kids aged 5-11 years. For those kids, the shots represented the first step to returning to normal.
The University of Iowa has identified 77 more damaged or at-risk windows in its Stead Family Children’s Hospital that need an emergency “safety film” — costing another $771,516.
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