Articles Tagged: University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics

As Iowa Marrow Donor program nears 40-year milestone, effort focuses on diverse donors

Between both Cedar Rapids hospitals, only one vaccinated individual, who had underlying health conditions, has been hospitalized for COVID-19. The vast majority of admissions in recent months have been among residents who are not immunized, proving to local health care officials the vaccine is effective in preventing serious illness and death.

UI Health Care recently became the first in Iowa to acquire a minimally-invasive robotic surgical assistant that’s proving to be a game-changer for patients and surgeons alike.

University of Iowa Health Care’s century-old children’s hospital — which recently got a

UIHC has improved its overall rating to four of five stars, putting it on par or above 86 percent of the 3,355 U.S. hospitals applicable for the five-star rating.

Richard Lighthall, 49, of Mount Vernon, on Friday night was struck by an Audi driven by 42-year-old Allan Novak Jr. of Cedar Rapids, in front of 6905 Mount Vernon Rd., according to the Linn County Sheriff’s Office.

July discussion to be postponed after councilor resigns

The UI Department of Public Safety received a report of a subject armed with a knife in the emergency room at 6:53 p.m.

University of Iowa Health Care has reapplied for the state certificate it needs to build a new $230 million facility in North Liberty after its first request was denied amid criticism it was swerving out of its lane, taking patients from community hospitals and clinics, and threatening their existence.

A federal judge has certified as class-action a lawsuit a group of University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics employees – including nurses and custodians – filed two years ago accusing their employer of, among other things, failing to pay wages and overtime on time.

Two months after the State Health Facilities Council

Iowans ‘have access to a growing number of early phase clinical trials’

Michael Lang, suspect in Iowa trooper Jim Smith's death, taken from UIHC to Black Hawk County Jail

The expected drop in transplants following the policy change – along with increased costs – could “threaten the long-term viability of plaintiffs’ transplant programs, as well as make it difficult to retain qualified medical specialists.”

Over the past year, more UIHC health care workers developed a COVID-19 infection after they were exposed at home, compared to exposure in the community or at work, university researchers found in a new study.