Tag: Health Care
Unemployment claims in Iowa still high, but falling
By CBJ News Staff
news@corridorbusiness.com
Iowa Workforce Development reports 27,912 initial unemployment insurance claims were filed for week ending April 18, with 26,192 initial claims by...
Hawkeye Hotels offers discounts for health care workers
The Fairfield Inn & Suites Coralville, owned and operated by Hawkeye Hotels, on a recent afternoon. CREDIT CBJ
By CBJ News Staff
news@corridorbusiness.com
Coralville-based Hawkeye Hotels is...
Affording Health: Sick, stressed and reporting for duty
In this six-part, subscribers-only series, the CBJ is exploring the crisis of health care affordability as it relates to employers and employees in the...
Hospitals providing temp housing for area HC staff
Inside one of the temporary rooms being offered to health care workers at Mercy Medical Center, located at the 600 Building on the Mercy...
Iowa jobless claims set another weekly record
By CBJ News Staff
news@corridorbusiness.com
The number of new unemployment claims in Iowa during the week ending Saturday broke all previous records, as companies affected by...
Corridor hospitals prepared as coronavirus spreads
UnityPoint Health - St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids, shown in a file photo. CREDIT UNITYPOINT
By Dave DeWitte
dave@corridorbusiness.com
With state health officials announcing six new...
Total worker health begins with the job
Dr. Casey Chosewood, speaking at the CBJ's Health Care Summit about new research into total worker health. PHOTO ADAM MOORE
By Dave DeWitte
dave@corridorbusiness.com
Although Casey Chosewood,...
IHA CEO gives Iowa good marks on health care
“Uniformly, Iowa performs very well on about any kind of metric you want to put on health care proÂviders and community hospitals," said Kirk...
IDx secures $33M in funding as AI heats up
A patient experiences a screening by IDx’s AI-driven diagnostic system, IDx-DR, in an undated photo. The system is the first of its kind to...