Articles Tagged: University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics

After years of construction on its main-campus emergency room -- spanning two stories, involving several departments, and expanding capacity across the high-demand space -- University of Iowa Health Care on Wednesday debuted a new pediatric-specific emergency room within its larger now-finished new ER.

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.

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.

According to the lawsuit, Joy’s child was diagnosed in March 2019 with a neurocognitive disability that required intensive medical care out of state.

Nearly a year after crews began work on the first new road on the University of Iowa campus in more than a decade — pouring pavement and removing 126 trees to make space for the 1,500-foot artery — a roundabout portion of the project is complete and began welcoming traffic Wednesday morning.

The State Appeal Board approved the settlements Tuesday.

Iowa is facing a “maternal care crisis” – as rural obstetric units disappear – funneling more pregnant mothers and babies to the University of Iowa, stressing and stretching its resources and compelling it to expand.

More than 15 years after U.S. News & World Report started ranking the nation’s children’s hospitals by the specialty services they offer, the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital this year achieved a top-50 ranking in nine of 11 categories.

University of Iowa Health Care’s new $280 million deal to expand its cancer-care reach into Central and Western Iowa is about better serving patients in the midst of a statewide “cancer crisis” and is “not a play to have more and more patients come to us in Iowa City,” UIHC officials told the Board of Regents on Tuesday.

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.

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.”

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.

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.