A former University of Iowa soccer player is suing UI Health Care, accusing its providers of negligence in the care she received for an ankle injury in 2021 that left her with a limp, chronic pain, and the need to wear special shoes.
University of Iowa Health Care and its affiliated UI Community HomeCare on Friday reported a data breach affecting about 211,000 individuals.
In light of health care-related budget cuts at the federal level expected to strip $9.5 billion from the State of Iowa over the next decade, University of Iowa Health Care on Thursday announced changes to its many building plans — including its more than $2 billion inpatient tower.
Questioning the accuracy of numbers University of Iowa Health Care used to justify construction of a $2-plus billion inpatient tower on its main campus, along with the potential impact on traffic and the overall budget, Iowa regent David Barker in June told UIHC leadership he doesn’t believe an adequate case has been made for the new 842,000 square foot project to be built on its longstanding Iowa City site.
UIHC officials in April 2025 announced that the 3 Center inpatient unit — after being closed for many years — would “soon be refurbished and reopened.” The 26-bed unit, officials said, would be dedicated to family medicine — offering acute care for patients and learning opportunities for residents in the “community-based hospital setting.”
A state audit the University of Iowa requested based on suspicions against one of its business-owning doctors in the Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology has turned up more than $300,000 in improper or unsupported spending.
University of Iowa Health Care’s SAINT® therapy only takes 10 minutes, and within a month, more than 80 percent had remission of symptoms.
University of Iowa Health Care is looking to expand and further cement its “commitment to serving Cedar Rapids” by capitalizing on the retirement of a private practitioner and buying his 37,850-square-foot medical office building.
Although most studies measuring premature-baby outcomes start at 22 and 23 weeks — reporting U.S. survival rates between 10 and 20 percent at that gestation — University of Iowa Health Care is among the few hospital systems that take on babies at 21 weeks.
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.
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