Vanessa Miller

In total so far, a Chicago law firm representing Mercy Hospital in its bankruptcy case has accumulated $6.2 million in fees against a hospital that — since its Chapter 11 petition through Oct. 31 — had reported a $13.7 million operating loss.

“The students that issued the statement have every right to their opinion,” Board of Regents President Michael Richards said. “I continue to strongly disagree with what they said and stand by that. However, I should not have used insulting language towards the students.”

With its outgoing Athletic Director David Harris headed to Tulane University in January, where he’ll assume the same role, the University of Northern Iowa on Wednesday announced former University of Iowa Athletic Director and retired Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby will step in as interim AD.

Mason – who his parents described as smart beyond his years, with a dry sense of humor – was just spreading his teenage wings, gaining more independence, and looking forward to his first high school season of soccer, a sport he’s played most of his life – since age 4.

A former employee of University of Iowa Community HomeCare has paired up with a former patient to sue the entity on behalf of themselves and 67,000-plus others over a data breach in March they argue could have been prevented, was reported too late, and unjustly enriched the university while causing years of stress, risk, and potential further victimization in the form of fraud and identity theft.

Just one year into the public portion of University of Northern Iowa's $250 million comprehensive fundraising campaign, the Cedar Falls campus already is most of the way to its goal — putting it more than two years ahead of schedule.

Although the common and highly-contagious RSV – short for “respiratory syncytial virus” – runs a mild, cold-like course for most people, it can hit infants and patients over 60 hard, even requiring hospitalization. For the first time, a vaccine is how available for those high-risk groups – thanks, in part, to University of Iowa Health Care trial work.

PinSeekers, which opened last week in Tiffin, is a year-round hybrid-golf and entertainment facility. It uses TopTracer technology, which offers advanced golf ball-tracking tools.

With a bankrupt Mercy Iowa City already inciting objections to the more than $1 million it's accrued in attorney fees tied to Chapter 11 proceedings, the hospital’s interim management and restructuring firm last week submitted another $1 million bill.

Despite warnings of a looming enrollment cliff threatening to decimate crops of high school graduates feeding thousands of colleges nationally, Iowa’s high school graduate numbers aren’t expected to dip below 2019 levels any time soon — at least through 2036.

Despite uncharacteristic discord on the Board of Regents over a list of diversity, equity, and inclusion recommendations, the board on Thursday approved the suggestions and asked the universities to produce progress reports and implementation plans by April.

Since University of Iowa Health Care more than two years ago initiated efforts to take over Mercy Iowa City, an outside Chicago-based law firm has billed it $1.8 million for “transactional and regulatory assistance arising in connection with a potential affiliation involving Mercy Iowa City.”

But the University of Iowa is the only state campus where tuition income beat expectations in fiscal 2023.

When Bradley Haws takes the reins as University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics CEO on Nov. 29 -- following a stint as UIHC chief financial officer two years ago -- he’ll make a $1.1 million starting salary, with the chance for $385,000 more in incentive pay.

Continuing its local and regional explosion in growth – including a pending $28 million purchase of Mercy Iowa City – the University of Iowa next week will ask Board of Regents permission to move forward with another $36.5 million in health care-related construction, including a $17.5 million “new road” paving the way for a $1 billion inpatient tower.