Tag: health
St. Luke’s Auxiliary donates $250,000 for mental health services
UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s Auxiliary has gifted a quarter-million-dollars to St. Luke’s Foundation for Club 520, a peer-run mental health support group available...
UI professor receives 2025 Gairdner Award for cystic fibrosis research
Dr. Michael Welsh, a longtime University of Iowa physician-scientist, has been named a 2025 recipient of the prestigious Canada Gairdner International Award for pioneering...
University of Iowa Health Care union begins bargaining with Iowa Board of Regents
Members of the University of Iowa Health Care workers union demanded double-digit wage increases, set language on workplace violence response, included bereavement time and...
President of Mercy Medical Center Foundation announces retirement
The Mercy Medical Center Foundation has announced the upcoming retirement of its president, Lorrie Erusha, who will step down in August 2025 after five...
St. Luke’s Hospital is using AI technology for colon cancer detection
UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids has announced that it is now offering patients enhanced colonoscopies with the GI Genius intelligent...
St. Luke’s hospital installs new aquatic therapy equipment
A lead gift from the Hall Perrine Foundation and many other significant gifts have allowed for St. Luke’s Foundation acquire the HydroWorx Rise, a...
UnityPoint’s PACE Senior Care Center to open in Hiawatha
UnityPoint's newest PACE Senior Care location, 1450 North Center Point Rd., Hiawatha, is slated to open this upcoming spring, though an exact date has...
Mercy’s Kathy Good recognized with Worldmaker Community Weaver Award
Mercy Medical Center has announced that Kathy Good, senior director of The Chris & Suzy DeWolf Innovation Center for Aging & Dementia and the...
UI Nurse Innovators program transforms patient care solutions
For the many advancements in technology and innovation within the surgical sector, University of Iowa operating room nurse Jill Droste said there still isn’t...