Articles Tagged: University of Iowa Health Care

University of Iowa Health Care is seeking Board of Regents approval to buy a 43-year-old community-based cancer-care business with 22 locations statewide for a proposed purchase price of $280 million.

Adding to nearly $1 billion in construction University of Iowa Health Care is pursuing across its main Iowa City campus and new North Liberty site, system officials Wednesday aired preliminary plans to spend more than $25 million upgrading its new downtown campus to meet UIHC standards.

As Dance Marathon programs across the country shift away from the slogan “For The Kids” due to trademark restrictions, the University of Iowa is taking the opportunity to rename one of its health care campus roads after another of its nationally-esteemed Children’s Hospital-related traditions.

Two years after first mentioning the prospect of building a new “health sciences research facility” on campus, University of Iowa Health Care this week aired more details -- including the project’s focus on cancer.

Instead of conducting a public search for a chief administrative officer to lead its new $525.6 million hospital in North Liberty, University of Iowa Health Care has appointed longtime administrator Amy O’Deen to the position.

University of Iowa Health Care earlier this summer began shopping for “inpatient telehealth products and solutions currently on the market to support inpatient teleconsult, telestroke, telesitting and virtual nursing workflows.”

Without discussion or debate, the State Health Facilities Council on Tuesday unanimously agreed that Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids doesn’t require a certificate of need to establish an offsite location in North Liberty.

Continuing its outreach and expansion, in concert with an explosion of health care services in North Liberty, Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids is considering offering services at an “off-site location” in Johnson County — where University of Iowa Health Care is building a new 469,000-square-foot hospital and Steindler Orthopedic is constructing a new 35,880-square-foot ambulatory surgical center.

Five years after discovering damaged and cracking windows throughout its 7-year-old Stead Family Children’s Hospital, the University of Iowa is about one-third through its massive window-replacement project — with work expected to continue through the end of 2025 or into early 2026.

After six months of focusing on transition and “maintaining access” for patients of the former Mercy Iowa City it bought for $28 million in January, the University of Iowa is starting to hone a longer-term vision for its new Medical Center Downtown that includes possible relocation of its obstetrics and midwifery, family medicine, and sleep disorders services.

In the days since Mercy Iowa City’s bondholders raised concerns about dwindling assets available for distribution through a liquidation trust, attorneys, consultants, and advisers for the bankrupt hospital, its creditors, and its pensioners have inundated the court with “final” fee requests totaling nearly $13.4 million.

Nearly seven years after a Mt. Pleasant man underwent a coronary artery bypass graft at University of Iowa Health Care in January 2018, UIHC has agreed to pay him $250,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging negligence.

University of Iowa Health Care will pay $1.2 million to the parents of a 17-year-old Iowa City High School senior who died unexpectedly in July 2020 after several UIHC providers mistook her symptoms of a developing pulmonary embolism as COVID.

Adding to its growing clinical enterprise and footprint across Eastern Iowa, Steindler Orthopedic Clinic on Monday debuted its eighth location — this one in Cedar Rapids, where about one-third of its clientele reside.

The University of Iowa has agreed to pay a federally-funded researcher and cardiologist with tenure $350,000 to resign -- relinquishing his tenure rights and suspending “any internal proceedings” involving him.