Iowa news MercyOne ‘virtual nurses’ visit patients via video in their hospital rooms Many patients hospitalized at Des Moines’ MercyOne Medical Center are interacting with some of their nurses in an unusual way: on the TV screens in their rooms. The hospital is having veteran nurses work via video systems

Iowa news MercyOne’s top Des Moines area leaders abruptly resign ‘to pursue other opportunities’ MercyOne Central Iowa’s top two leaders are stepping down, the hospital system confirmed Monday. Karl Keeler, who was president, and Phil Harrop, who was interim chief operating officer, “will be leaving the MercyOne system to pursue

Iowa news Downtown hospital property sold to developer After over a century as a hospital in downtown Marshalltown, UnityPoint Health has sold the property between East Main Street, South Third Avenue, East Church Street and South Fifth Avenue to a developer with future plans for “office, retail, residential and live/work

Iowa news Des Moines wins $175,000 grant to continue produce prescription program The U.S. Conference of Mayors and the American Beverage Foundation for a Healthy America has announced that the city of Des Moines is one of nine recipients of the 2022 Childhood Obesity Prevention and Environmental Health and Sustainability

Iowa news DMACC to launch new emergency responder program this fall Des Moines Area Community College announced it has created a new career path that combines paramedic training with a concentration in fire science. The new program, the Emergency Response AAS degree, aims to prepare a more well-rounded first responder

Iowa news Return to Mary Greeley finds exhausted staff A year ago, the Des Moines Register began publishing “Inside COVID’s Siege,” a seven-part series by Iowa Columnist Courtney Crowder and photojournalist Zach Boyden-Holmes that took readers inside Mary Greeley after Iowa’s first big surge of COVID hospitalizations and deaths. They

Iowa news With COVID-19 straining hospitals and schools, we all can do something to help The suffering from COVID-19 never stopped. But its visibility might never have been greater than it is now, even considering the disease’s early rampages overseas and on the U.S. coasts and during the winter 2020-21

Iowa news MercyOne Richard Deming Cancer Center opens with focus on patient-centered cancer care MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday to mark the opening of the MercyOne Richard Deming Cancer Center. The new center will be central Iowa’s first cancer care center where patients are seen

Iowa news University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics staff answers community member questions about COVID-19 and vaccines Community members got the chance to have their questions about COVID-19 and vaccines answered by health professionals during a Facebook live hosted by the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. One of the

Iowa news Provider groups at odds with regulators over arbitration rules for No Surprises Act Although a new federal law means that Iowa patients should no longer receive surprise medical bills after an emergency room visit or hospital stay, health care provider groups and insurers are still wrangling at the

Iowa news A Closer Look: Chris Mitchell, President and CEO of the Iowa Hospital Association Chris Mitchell was appointed president and chief executive officer of the Iowa Hospital Association in August and began his new role in mid-October. Mitchell, who was selected by the IHA Board of Officers and Trustees

Iowa News Iowa OSHA won’t enforce the federal vaccine-or-test mandate for large businesses Iowa’s Labor Commissioner Rod Roberts has submitted notice that Iowa will not adopt or enforce the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test requirement for large businesses, Gov. Kim Reynolds’ office announced Friday. Iowa is a State Plan state, which means