Vanessa Miller

Williams, at the time, was taking a well-deserved pause from decades of professional exploration, discovery, growth, and development involving health-care shaping, life-saving, and soul-enriching – and at times crushing – investigation and innovation.

“I don't think I've ever gone a week here on my unit for four years without being physically assaulted,” said UIHC registered nurse Alex Kestrel, who works in the geriatric psychiatry unit. “I get punched in the face pretty much every week by my patients.”

To make up for missed deadlines and late data from the state, Iowa Auditor Rob Sand this week had his office for the first time push out “single audit reports” for each of Iowa’s public universities to spare them from threats to federal funding and certifications that require annual financial reporting.

For nearly eight years, the University of Iowa has touted the work and stories of its high-achieving researchers, scholars, and creators through a

The day before the University of Iowa announced who would serve on a revamped search committee for its second attempt to find a new vice president for medical affairs, a committee co-chair asked the woman who later would be chosen for the job to apply.

Four months after the University of Iowa reported “a search for a buyer is in progress” for its 55-year-old Mayflower Residence Hall, the institution officially has listed the 326,000-square-foot property for $45 million.

The state of Iowa added to its tally of Board of Regents-related settlement payouts Wednesday by approving three more – including a $5 million agreement tied to allegations of medical negligence at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, to be paid out over 30 years through 2053.

With plans proceeding on a $49 million expanded neonatal intensive care unit in its 14-story Stead Family Children’s Hospital, the University of Iowa on Wednesday saw its neonatology rank jump five spots to No. 21 in U.S. News & World Report’s new “2023-2024 Best Children’s Hospital” rankings.

As it’s done for years, the Board of Regents last week approved a University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics across-the-board 6-percent rate hike for the new budget year starting next month – the highest allowed in many UIHC payer contracts.

Students who are older, already in the workforce, raising families or from families without a history of college or the resources to finance it are becoming increasingly important across higher education.

Adding to the lawsuits and settlements mounting for Mercy Iowa City and its affiliates is one filed earlier this year by the husband of a Mount Pleasant woman who died in April 2022 after making nearly 20 trips to various providers in a two-month span for what started as complaints of sinus pressure and earaches.

“There was blood everywhere,” she said. “I was dying. I was going to bleed to death. I was afraid I was going to die and was in severe pain.”

After hearing from student representatives worried about the rising cost of higher education but aware of eroding state support, Iowa’s Board of Regents without discussion Wednesday approved across-the-system tuition and fee increases – including a 3.5-percent hike for all in-state undergraduates.

Iowa’ Board of Regents also approved additional deferred compensation plans for her and for Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen. At the University of Northern Iowa, President Mark Nook gets his first raise since 2016.

The Board of Regents today is evaluating the performance of its three university presidents and executive director over the last year — a process that on many occasions historically has resulted in pay raises and increased deferred compensation.