UIHC to convert main campus wing to 13 inpatient rooms

An $8 million University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics plan to transform the second level of its south wing into 13 inpatients rooms was one of several capital improvement projects presented to the Iowa Board of Regents Nov. 9.

The one-year project, beginning in the spring, would increase patient capacity in the short term, a continuing point of concern for the hospital system.

According to the meeting’s…