Articles Tagged: University of Iowa Health Care

With crews in the midst of replacing nearly every window encasing its eight-year-old Stead Family Children’s Hospital, the University of Iowa on Tuesday announced it has won a $49.4 million arbitration award in its complaint over the defective windows.

As University of Iowa Health Care expands it facilities and footprint, and by extension services across Iowa and beyond, administrators want to be strategic in the growth — creating new leadership roles to shepherd the organization’s evolution.

With Board of Regents permission to start work on the first of three phases for its more than $1.5 billion patient tower, University of Iowa Health Care is seeking an outside firm to audit in real time what is expected to be the largest construction project in state history.

After more than a decade leading University of Iowa Health Care’s orthopedics department from its basement dwellings on the main Iowa City campus, J. Lawrence “Larry” Marsh is stepping down as chair — just months after moving the department into a new 469,060-square-foot orthopedics hospital in North Liberty.

About to graduate with a psych degree in spring 2024, her focus turned toward the medical college admission test, University of Iowa senior Krisha Keeran on March 13, 2024 had just finished taking her final MCAT practice exam when she and her dad took off for a bike ride that would end with weeks of hospitalization and months of rehab.

“With this technology, what we've been able to do for patients is really revolutionary. And the University of Iowa is at the cutting edge now, both in delivering the care and training the next generation of surgeons to do it.”

On the heels of a White House memo last week threatening the hundreds of millions in Medicaid-related directed payment revenue University of Iowa Health Care has been getting for the last three years, administrators Wednesday said they could rethink plans for a planned $1.5 billion inpatient tower on the main UIHC campus.

University of Iowa Health Care is paying a total of $3.5 million to settle two malpractice lawsuits — including one involving a 63-year-old Dubuque man who died in the operating room during a surgery to repair his broken leg.

A Cedar Rapids woman, who was caught on video in 2023 giving her 2-year-old son unneeded insulin while at University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital, was convicted Monday of child endangerment and another charge. She faces up to 10 years in prison.

A few months after 75-year-old Steindler Orthopedic Clinic in March vacated its longtime home in east Iowa City for a new 100,000-square-foot clinic and surgery center in North Liberty, University of Iowa Health Care is eyeing Steindler’s old digs as a new home for its Department of Family and Community Medicine.

For the first time since airing in 2022 plans to build a new 842,000-square-foot inpatient tower, University of Iowa Health Care has brought the project before the Board of Regents for approval to spend $72.5 million on “early work.”

With its already-sprawling campus continuing to grow both in Iowa City and across the region and state, University of Iowa Health Care has created a new administrative position for a “physician executive.”

University of Iowa Health Care for years has bemoaned its cramped emergency department and limited bed capacity — creating long wait times, lengthy ER stays, and higher-than-average rates of would-be patients who leave without being seen.

University of Iowa Health Care is looking to spend tens of millions over the next year to expand its footprint across the region and state -- including with a new family medicine clinic in Tiffin, just a few miles from where UIHC is opening a new 469,060-square-foot hospital in neighboring North Liberty next week.

Promising groundbreaking innovation and the highest quality care this region has to offer – University of Iowa Health Care on Friday kicked off a weekend introducing its new orthopedics and sports medicine hospital to a booming North Liberty with lawmakers, regents, community leaders, and university executives touring the “gorgeous new cutting-edge facility.”