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Health and Wellness

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Web Health Awards sets entry deadline

The entry deadline for the Health Information Resource Center’s Web Health Awards is Feb. 18.

The entry fee is $58. Winners receive a one-year license to use the program’s winners’ logo for marketing and promotional …

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Healthcare overhaul repealed by House

The healthcare debate has been reopened, but a vote yesterday is unlikely to change anything.

The House of Representatives voted yesterday to repeal President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul.

For Republicans, it was an opportunity to …

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Repeal of health-care law harmful to Iowa, group says

Consumers and small businesses in Iowa would face significantly higher insurance premiums and could experience coverage denials and price discrimination if efforts to repeal the federal health care law prevail in Congress or in the …

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Iowa Lutheran begins using new cath lab


Cardiologists and vascular surgeons at Iowa Lutheran Hospital have begun using a new, state-of the-art cardiac catheterization laboratory that will enhance the detection and treatment of heart and vascular disease, Iowa Health – Des Moines …

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Broadlawns adds two emergency department physicians

Broadlawns Medical Center has hired two additional physicians to help staff its recently expanded emergency department. Dr. Ryan Bakke and Dr. Martin VanZee both received their medical degrees from Des Moines University and completed their …

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Mercy Clinics expanding


Two growing Greater Des Moines communities will each get a new medical clinic next year. In Ankeny, Mercy Clinics Inc. has begun construction of a 10,600-square-foot family practice clinic in the Prairie Trail development. In …

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Iowa among first to receive electronic medical record incentives

Iowa health-care providers will be among the first in the nation to begin receiving direct incentives next month for installing electronic medical records in their offices, according to the Iowa Department of Human Services.

Doctors, …

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Wellmark awards school exercise program grant

The Wellmark Foundation, a nonprofit foundation of Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa, has awarded a two-year, $49,639 grant to the Great River Foundation to fund a new school-based exercise program at two …

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Mercy Clinics building at Prairie Trail

Mercy Clinics has begun construction on a new family practice clinic in the Prairie Trail development in Ankeny. The new clinic, Mercy Prairie Trail Family Medicine Clinic, will be located at 2605 S.W. White Birch …

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Live Healthy America 100-Day Challenge enrollment opens

Open enrollment is now in effect through Jan. 19 for the Live Healthy America 100-Day Wellness Challenge. The program, whose past participants have included Hy-Vee Inc., MidAmerican Energy Co., Iowa Health System and Meredith Corp., …

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