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Cedar Rapids Gazette: After four years of leading the University of Iowa’s $1.2 billion health care operation, Brooks Jackson, the UI vice president for medical affairs and dean of the nationally ranked UI Carver College of …
UnityPoint Health has selected Daniel Joiner to lead the health system’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts as its first chief diversity officer, the Corridor Business Journal reported. Joiner, who previously was interim system DEI consultant for UnityPoint Health, led …
The University of Iowa announced today that the Richard O. Jacobson Foundation has committed a $70 million gift to the university to support a new patient care building for University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.…
Des Moines Register: An Illinois-based company accused of mishandling hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 tests conducted around the country, as well as providing inaccurate or fraudulent negative results, operated three unlicensed testing sites in Iowa. The …
Health insurance companies require prior authorization for certain medical procedures, treatments or drugs as a cost-saving measure, but excessive insurer-imposed approval processes can actually increase health costs for employers, according to the American Medical Association. …
Boone City Council member Steven Ray speaks during Thursday’s announcement that Fareway is pledging $2 million toward the construction of a new wellness center in the community. Photo by Michael Crumb
BOONE – Saying it would …
Des Moines Register: Opponents of vaccination mandates crowded into a Capitol meeting room Thursday for several hours to support a bill that would widely ban vaccination and mask mandates at businesses, governmental entities and schools. The …
Des Moines Register: With avian influenza creeping closer to Iowa, poultry producers are closely watching flocks for signs of the highly contagious disease that swept through the state’s commercial and backyard flocks nearly seven years ago, …
MercyOne Central Iowa’s top two leaders are stepping down, the Des Moines Register reported. Karl Keeler, who was president, and Phil Harrop, who was interim chief operating officer, “will be leaving the MercyOne system to pursue other …
Axios Des Moines: Widespread coronavirus infections have been detected in Iowa’s white-tailed deer, according to a peer-reviewed study published today. Scientists worry the disease could mutate in animals and spread back to humans. Scientists from Penn …
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