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Vermeer partners with local health office on COVID-19 vaccination clinics

Residents are seated as they wait to get COVID-19 vaccines in Vermeer Corp.’s Global Pavilion on March 5. Photo submitted by Vermeer


Vermeer Corp., in conjunction with Marion County Public Health, has been working to get…
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Pandemic’s baby bust part of long-term decline in birth rates

Iowa births from 2016 to 2020. Source: Iowa Department of Public Health

What some had thought might be a baby boom as people hunkered in at home for work and play as the coronavirus spread …

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Foundation extends health care scholarship deadline to April 15

The application deadline for health care scholarships from the Iowa Hospital Education and Research Foundation has been extended to April 15. A subsidiary of the Iowa Hospital Association, the foundation will award 60 health care …

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NAMI Greater Des Moines cuts ties with state, national organization, announces new name

The Greater Des Moines affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness has ended its affiliation with NAMI Iowa and the national NAMI organization, in a move the former local affiliate’s leaders say will better …

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Exemplar Care launches 24/7 urgent care clinic

A West Des Moines physician who is beginning his third year operating a direct primary care practice has now launched a 24-hour urgent care/extended care clinic as an additional service for his members, but the …

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Clive Behavioral Health opens — with limited initial capacity

Central Iowans seeking inpatient or outpatient behavioral health care for themselves or a family member now have another option with the opening of Clive Behavioral Health.


The new 83,000-square-foot hospital, which officially opened Feb. 22, …

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Iowa’s health care system stretched — but not broken — by pandemic

The need to rapidly respond to the pandemic crisis gave Iowa health care providers unprecedented permission to do things differently over the past year — and will greatly influence decisions about changes to the health …

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MercyOne Central Iowa to boost minimum wage to $15 hourly

MercyOne Central Iowa is instituting a minimum wage for its staff of $15 an hour, effective April 4, the health system announced to its employees today. In an internal memo shared with the Business Record, MercyOne …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: A look at how COVID spread through the U.S.

William Frey, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, has studied data showing COVID-19’s spread through the U.S. during the past 12 months. The analysis includes several maps depicting a month-by-month look at COVID’s …

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DART offering free rides to COVID-19 vaccine appointments

The Des Moines Regional Transit Authority is offering free rides to COVID-19 vaccine appointments. According to a news release, the service is available on all local, express and on-call routes. DART Bus Plus riders can …