Health and Wellness

The Wellmark Foundation has received 119 applications for Community Kickstarter grants, and now it’s time for Iowans to vote for their favorite community projects. Each grant will fund up to $10,000 for projects in Iowa …

The city of Des Moines will hold a citywide walk event on Oct. 5 as part of the Healthiest State Initiative’s annual walk. In order to involve businesses and organizations from the Capitol to the Western Gateway, …

Dorothy Schaefer’s will provided $2 million to establish the William and Grace Lewis Scholarship Endowment Fund to support nursing education and certification at UnityPoint Health-Des Moines. A portion of the interest each year will be …

Des Moines-based Lifespace Communities announced it has hired a new senior vice president for business development to lead growth through mergers and acquisitions. Hired is Joe Anderson, who has nearly three decades of …

Early responses from a major Mercer survey indicate U.S. employers expect that per-employee group health benefit costs will increase by 4 percent on average in 2017, after they make planned changes such as raising deductibles …

Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, which is based in Des Moines, plans to transfer ownership of three clinics in Arkansas and Oklahoma to another affiliate. Clinics in Fayetteville and Little Rock, Ark., and in Tulsa, …

Two Greater Des Moines-based accountable care organizations have been named to the list of “100 ACOs to Know“ in 2016 by Becker’s Hospital Review. Mercy ACO and Iowa Health Accountable Care, which does business as UnityPoint …