Articles Tagged: University of Iowa Health Care

Employees are retiring, moving to less stressful careers, as UI works to hire hundreds

The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics – heading into the fall and winter months with COVID still spreading – is preparing for another surge, albeit different from the one that stressed the campus last year.

As the second summer of the pandemic wanes, state emergency orders that mandate coverage of telehealth visits and waive the requirement for out-of-state medical licenses are expiring.

A new $230 million University of Iowa Health Care facility will be built in North Liberty after a state council Tuesday reversed a prior decision, approving the project to proceed.

Arguing no one disputes how University of Iowa Health Care for years paid employees overtime and for working extra shifts, the thousands of past and present workers suing UIHC’s governing Board of Regents recently asked a federal judge to decide the case without further delay via “summary judgment.”

The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics’ second try to get a state certificate it needs to build a new $230 million facility off Interstate 380 is getting a second round of pushback just as the five-member State Health Facilities Council prepares to reconsider the project this week.

With the start of the school year this month, how can parents keep school-aged children from becoming infected with COVID-19? A University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics pediatrician offered her advice during a Facebook Live Q&A Monday.

A week away from the start of school for many Iowans, University of Iowa Health Care at noon today is hosting a Facebook Live Q&A specifically about COVID-19 and kids.

A University of Iowa epidemiologist takes questions from The Gazette as children head back to school.

Following a stinging denial in February and another unexpected delay over the summer, University of Iowa Health Care’s revamped application to build a new $230 million facility off Interstate-380 in North Liberty is set to have a second shot before the State Health Facilities Council on Aug. 31.

After just three years as part of University of Iowa Health Care’s new administrative team, Chief Financial Officer Bradley Haws on Friday is leaving UIHC for the same position at

While maintaining its standing as the top-ranked hospital in Iowa, the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics has lost ground nationally in its ranked specialties, according to new U.S. News & World Report “best hospitals” list.

As it promised, University of Iowa Health Care is rewarding via one-time payout the more than 12,000 employees who it required over the last year to either forfeit raises, absorb pay cuts, shed earned vacation time, or take unpaid leave to ease UIHC budget woes in the throes of COVID-19.

In partnership with the University of Georgia, a UI team recently published promising findings showing a single-dose inhaled COVID-19 vaccine fully protected mice against lethal infection and also blocked animal-to-animal transmission.

Both University of Iowa and Iowa State University this week reported new external funding records for the budget year that wrapped June 30.