Health and Wellness

The Iowa Insurance Commissioner Nick Gerhart plans to file a petition next week to liquidate CoOportunity Health, saying in a release that medical claims exceed cash on hand, with no expectation of additional cash flow …

The U.S. Small Business Administration will describe the basics of the Affordable Care Act and how it affects small businesses at two sessions in Des Moines. The first is Jan. 28, the second Feb. 4. …

Health care costs and lack of money or low wages rank as the most important financial problems facing American families, each mentioned by 14 percent of U.S. adults in Gallup’s annual poll. Higher-income families were more likely …

The Midwest has one of the healthiest cities in the country, according to a new study. Unfortunately, it also has the unhealthiest one, National Real Estate Investor reported. A new survey by BetterDoctor.com ranked Minneapolis as the second healthiest …

UnityPoint Health – Des Moines plans to establish a LifeFlight base in Fort Dodge to serve Trinity Regional Medical Center and north-central Iowa. For several decades, LifeFlight has provided air ambulance services from Trinity to …

UnityPoint Health – Des Moines has hired Staci Fry as executive director of volunteer services. She will oversee the volunteer programs at Iowa Methodist Medical Center, Iowa Lutheran Hospital, Methodist West Hospital and Blank Children’s …

A number of Iowa communities will have more money to develop safer sidewalks, improve trail connections or even build a community garden, thanks to a competitive grant program of the Wellmark Foundation.

Fourteen community …