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Health savings accounts increased 13% in 2019; IRS updates plan limits

The Internal Revenue Service has announced new limits for health savings account contributions and high-deductible health plan limits for 2021, with the takeup rate by employers increasing at a double-digit rate, Businessolver posted on its website. The …
By BUSINESS RECORD STAFF | May 22, 2020
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Kindred Healthcare, Mercy Iowa City to open 40-bed rehabilitation hospital

Kindred Healthcare LLC and Mercy Iowa City, an affiliate of MercyOne, announced Thursday the opening of Mercy Iowa City Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Coralville. The hospital expects to admit its first …
By BUSINESS RECORD STAFF | May 22, 2020
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8 big ideas for recovery

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By BPC Staff | May 21, 2020
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EveryStep promotes Uhlenhopp to regional director role

EveryStep, one of Iowa’s largest nonprofit health care and human services organizations, has appointed Leann Uhlenhopp as a regional director. Uhlenhopp has been team director for EveryStep Hospice in the Des Moines and Perry areas for …
By BPC Staff | May 20, 2020
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Harshfield named CFO of Lifespace Communities

Lifespace Communities has appointed Nicholas “Nick” Harshfield to the position of chief financial officer, effective July 1. Harshfield, most recently CFO of WesleyLife in Johnston, brings more than 30 years of financial experience to the role, 15 years …
By BPC Staff | May 19, 2020
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Blank Children’s, Trinity in Fort Dodge to launch pediatric care partnership

Blank Children’s Hospital in Des Moines and UnityPoint Health – Trinity Regional Medical Center in Fort Dodge have announced a “monumental” partnership in which the two hospitals will together hire five full-time pediatric nurse practitioners …
By JOE GARDYASZ | May 8, 2020
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Drake University student shares industry struggles as he prepares to graduate

Xavier Lechleitner is finishing his senior year of college at Drake University at home in Edgar, Wis., on his family’s cattle farm. When Lechleitner’s operations management class asked students to submit a video blog exploring …
By KATE HAYDEN | May 8, 2020
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Computer scientists launch new search tool for COVID-19 researchers

After the White House called on researchers nationally to assist in COVID-19, Hridesh Rajan realized that the large body of published papers on coronaviruses and other epidemiology studies could offer “game-changing insights” for medical researchers …
By KATE HAYDEN | May 8, 2020
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Teaching public health in times of crisis

In the University of Northern Iowa’s Health, Recreation and Community Services Department, Disa Cornish and her colleagues are training the next generation of public health advocates in Iowa — a generation that is witnessing firsthand …
By KATE HAYDEN | May 8, 2020
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What does it take to keep research teams safe?

When Marty Scholtz thought about the University of Iowa’s research community rising to a challenge, he recalled the floods of 2008. 

“It was a monumental event on campus and shut down a lot of buildings …
By KATE HAYDEN | May 8, 2020