Health Care

Mercy Iowa City seeks $55M from MercyOne, recovery of ‘fraudulent transfers’
The oversight committee managing Mercy Hospital Iowa City’s bankruptcy estate has filed an adversary proceeding against MercyOne, the hospital’s former managing partner, seeking to recover “at least $55 million in damages caused to (Mercy Iowa City) by the defendants.” The…
Perspective Therapeutics: New name, new headquarters
Precision and personalization are just two of the characteristics that Perspective Therapeutics executives agree make…
Stead Children’s Hospital windows to cost $45 million
A plan to replace damaged windows at the Stead Family Children’s Hospital for $45 million…

CBJ Health Care Summit panelists address health care costs, competition
A group of local health care panelists fielded a series of questions from Corridor Business…

Digital Diagnostics, Saudi Arabia-based healthcare firm partner
Digital Diagnostics — maker of IDx-DR, the first-ever FDA-cleared, fully autonomous AI system for the…

UnityPoint announces recipients of AEDs, Stop the Bleed kits
UnityPoint Health–St. Luke’s Hospital, through St. Luke’s Foundation, has announced the recipients of 56 AEDs…

Covenant Family Solutions expanding to Davenport
Covenant Family Solutions (CFS), a behavioral healthcare provider based in Cedar Rapids, announced the opening…

Health Care Summit speaker: Parallel integration can address crisis
Tim Sagers gets straight to the point: We’re spending more in the U.S. on health…

EIHC offers Saturday vaccine clinics, free transportation
Eastern Iowa Health Center in Cedar Rapids is offering eight Saturday clinics for individuals interested…

UI researcher wins global biomedical science prize
University of Iowa researcher Dr. Michael Welsh will receive the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences…

Medtech companies merge to form Perspective Therapeutics
Coralville-based Viewpoint Molecular Targeting has formally merged with Isoray Inc. out of Richland, Washington to…

UIHC invite bids for expanded burn treatment center
University of Iowa Health Care (UIHC) is seeking request for qualifications from architecture design firms…

UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s Hospital to open Marion ER
UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s Hospital will open an off-campus Emergency Department in Marion in…

UnityPoint Health nurses named 2023 Great Iowa Nurses
Fifty nurses at UnityPoint Health were named to the 2023 Great Iowa Nurses list including…

Mercy Cedar Rapids announces new Marion emergency department
Mercy Cedar Rapids has announced plans for its second off-site, hospital-based emergency department extension in…

UI study identifies potential target for treating addiction and relapse
New research from the University of Iowa finds that blocking an enzyme that lowers localized…
