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Although the skywalk spanning Market Street connecting portions of the historic Mercy Hospital campus on Wednesday morning still boasted that 150-year-old name and its teal and white colors, a sign along the street below announced Mercy’s new owner and new name: University of Iowa Health Care "Downtown Campus.“

With thousands of schools built in the 1930s through 1970s still in use — Keri Hornbuckle and her team would like to help school districts pinpoint PCB hot spots and find ways to affordably reduce the risks to students and staff.

As part of the ownership transfer, about 1,000 former Mercy Iowa City “team members” — including 45 physicians and 33 advanced practice providers — will become UIHC employees.

A woman who is suing two former FIJI members is asking the court to drop a separate lawsuit against a former UI student she accused of video recording the alleged sexual attack.

A week before Mercy Iowa City’s 150-year history comes to an end – with the bankrupt hospital transitioning to University of Iowa ownership Jan. 31 – the Board of Regents will meet Wednesday to consider new bylaws for the former Mercy campus, renamed UI Health Care Medical Center Downtown.

Guest pianist’s fingers will be flying through Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto.

Even as “dangerously cold temperatures” have pushed all three of Iowa’s public universities

With the $28 million sale of Mercy Iowa City to the University of Iowa just over two weeks from closing, the 150-year-old community hospital’s largest bondholders are seeking court affirmation they will get the vast majority of that money “promptly.”

Given wind chills in Johnson County could plummet below negative-35 degrees Tuesday, the University of Iowa on Friday announced it’s not holding in-person classes on what was scheduled to be the first day of the spring semester.

Instead of the nearly $40 million Legislative appropriations increase Iowa’s Board of Regents wanted in the next budget year, Gov. Kim Reynolds has recommended a $12.3 million bump — amounting to a 2.5 percent increase for each of Iowa’s public universities.

The new chief integration officer that University of Iowa Health Care has appointed to manage its complex merger with Mercy Iowa City — following UIHC’s $28 million bankruptcy acquisition of the community hospital — could earn $780,000 this year, according to her professional services agreement.

A letter to Mercy Iowa City patients went out over the weekend about its transition to University of Iowa Health Care ownership asking them to “continue to schedule and go to your appointments as usual.”

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Sportsbooks would be required to maintain a list of prohibited bettors -- including players, coaches, trainers and referees -- to make sure those people are not placing bets. Bettors would have to provide more information, including the last four digits of their Social Security number.

Just weeks away from “day one” of a merged University of Iowa-Mercy Iowa City model through which the 150-year-old Mercy Hospital will morph into UI Health Care’s “downtown campus,” job offers are going out to more than 1,100 prospective transitioning employees.