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‘Get Your Bib On’ aims to increase dental visits by Iowans

The Healthiest State Initiative on Friday launched “Get Your Bib On,” a campaign to educate Iowans about the importance of visiting the dentist regularly. “Our goal is to help Iowans understand why it is so …

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Safe Kids Greater Des Moines to host gas can exchange

Blank Children’s Hospital, Metro Waste Authority and Safe Kids Greater Des Moines will host the second annual Christopher Allsup Gas Can Exchange on June 6 from 8 a.m. to noon at Metro Waste Hazardous Dropoff …

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UI study finds effective ways to reduce surgical infections

A multicenter study led by infection control experts with University of Iowa Health Care finds that implementing a series of simple interventions before surgery can reduce the rate of surgical-site infections by up to 40 percent. The …

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Brown inducted into AMGA Public Policy Hall of Fame

C. Edward Brown, CEO of the Iowa Clinic, was inducted into the American Medical Group Association Public Policy Hall of Fame in a Washington D.C. ceremony Monday. The Hall of Fame was established this year …

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UnityPoint Clinic launches virtual care service

 

UnityPoint Clinic announced today that it has begun offering the option of receiving care for minor health conditions virtually — by phone or secure video via computer, tablet or smartphone. UnityPoint Clinic is partnering …

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Iowa beverage retailers to post calorie information

 

Iowans will begin to see calorie information on beverage vending machines, convenience store coolers and fountain machines statewide under a new initiative announced today. 

 

Balance Calories Iowa, a combined effort of the Iowa …

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Insufficient funding limits Iowa nurse loan forgiveness

More than 250 nurses who applied for a state-run loan forgiveness program will not receive any money this year from the underfunded program, which only had sufficient funds to partially reimburse 56 nurse educators who …

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Mercy cath labs receive accreditation

Mercy Medical Center – Des Moines and Mercy West Lakes recently received accreditation for their cardiac catheterization lab and percutaneous coronary intervention from Accreditation for Cardiovascular Excellence (ACE), an organization dedicated to ensuring adherence to …

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The Homestead launches telehealth services

The Homestead announced it has begun using telehealth technology to teach parents with autistic children to implement Applied Behavior Analysis in their homes. Telehealth is designed for remote areas, where medical and behavioral care is …

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Expanded LifeFlight service from Fort Dodge begins June 1

UnityPoint Health – Des Moines will expand its LifeFlight air ambulance service with a second helicopter to be based at Trinity Regional Medical Center in Fort Dodge, beginning June 1. The expansion in service, as previously …