Articles Tagged: University of Iowa Health Care

“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.”

In seeking its own batch of records from a bankrupt Mercy Iowa City — which last week won a court order for voluminous documents in its ongoing liquidation battle — the community hospital’s former managing affiliate MercyOne is airing new details about backroom discussions, discord, and deals that precipitated Mercy Iowa City’s downfall.

After two-plus years fighting a medical negligence lawsuit involving the death of a 75-year-old University of Iowa cancer patient — who was found unresponsive on the floor next to her inpatient bed three days postsurgery — the state has negotiated a settlement to pay the family $1.5 million.

Three years after getting the state OK to build an ambulatory surgery center near the booming North Liberty-Tiffin border, Steindler Orthopedic Clinic is two weeks from opening a 100,000-square-foot facility on March 24.

In the year since taking over Iowa City’s bankrupt Mercy Hospital and transitioning the 78-year-old facility into its new downtown campus, University of Iowa Health Care has not completed a comprehensive review of staff badge access, “increasing the risk of unauthorized entry,” according to an internal audit made public this week.

That bigger Children’s Hospital window replacement budget — if approved by the Board of Regents next week — will bring the total cost to replace cracking and damaged windows encasing the eight-year-old hospital to $52.5 million.