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San Francisco-based Limelight Health announces new Des Moines location

Limelight Health, a California-based employee benefits software platform, is hiring in Des Moines as the company plans a new expansion in the Midwest, Clay & Milk reports. The company has not released an opening date for …
By BPC Staff | Jul 24, 2018
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Quinlisk to retire

Long-time state epidemiologist Patricia Quinlisk plans to retire this fall, and he will be replaced by Nebraska counterpart Caitlin Pedati, Iowa Public Radio reported. Quinlisk had warned Iowans of health threats for 24 years after coming …
By BPC Staff | Jul 18, 2018
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ProbioFerm ready for second expansion in three years

Urbandale-based ProbioFerm LLC, a contract manufacturer of probiotics, is seeking an estimated $250,000 in development incentives to build a 9,000-square-foot, manufacturing and warehouse facility at 10301 Justin Drive.

The project would add three jobs to …
By BUSINESS RECORD STAFF | Jul 16, 2018
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KemPharm announces promising trial results for ADHD prodrug

Corridor Business Journal:Coralville-based KemPharm announced this week that its prodrug treatment for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in patients between the ages of 6-12, called KP415, has met primary and secondary efficacy endpoints. The company said …
By BPC Staff | Jul 13, 2018
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Green named chief operating officer for DMOS

DMOS Orthopaedic Centers announced that its board has appointed Rich Green as chief operating officer, effective July 11. Green was affiliated with DMOS in 1994 as a supervisor in UnityPoint Health Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Centers. In …
By BPC Staff | Jul 13, 2018
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Iowa medical board director placed on administrative leave

Des Moines Register: One of Iowa’s most prominent health care regulators — Mark Bowden, the executive director of the Iowa Board of Medicine since 2008 — has been placed on “administrative leave” since last week. The …
By BPC Staff | Jul 13, 2018
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DMACC, Purdue Global partner in bachelor’s program for nursing

Des Moines Area Community College and Purdue University Global have announced an innovative partnership to help students easily transfer into Purdue Global’s health sciences and nursing online bachelor’s degree programs and potentially enter the workforce faster.

With …
By BUSINESS RECORD STAFF | Jul 12, 2018
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A prescription for change

John Forbes was deluged with emails and phone calls early this year as pharmacists across the state contacted him to try to sort out why one of the biggest pharmacy benefit managers — CVS Caremark …
By JOE GARDYASZ | Jul 11, 2018
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Broadlawns to add a third floor to hospital with $29M expansion

Broadlawns Medical Center will expand its medical facilities by adding a third, 41,900-square-foot floor to the hospital’s Sands Building, the Des Moines hospital announced today. 

With the addition, Broadlawns will shift to single occupancy medical-surgical …
By BPC Staff | Jul 10, 2018
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Nopoulos to chair psychiatry department at Carver College of Medicine

Peggy Nopoulos, M.D., has been named chair and departmental executive officer of the Psychiatry Department in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, effective July 1. Her selection follows a national search in which she …
By BPC Staff | Jul 5, 2018