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A report by the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform found that over half of rural U.S. hospitals don't offer labor and delivery services. In Iowa, 62% don't have the services as of July 2024.
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Thirteen states across the U.S., including much of the Midwest, introduced bills this year that could give some rights to embryos and fetuses usually associated with people. None passed but people in the fertility world are concerned that lawmakers will try again and what that means for reproductive rights.
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The Federal Trade Commission's ban on noncompetes would impact the health care industry when and if it goes into effect. Some in the industry are applauding the rule, while others are voicing their dismay and vowing to sue.
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Nineteen-year-old Christopher Turnis needed a second new kidney, but his donor wasn't a match. Through the National Kidney Registry, a chain of living donors formed to find Turnis a compatible organ.
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Seniors who are hospitalized with even a minor illness or injury are at risk of "hospital-acquired disability," which puts them at risk of rehospitalizations and a downward spiral that could eventually land them in a nursing home.
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Christopher Turnis of Dubuque and Kathi Anderson of Iowa City are two links in a chain reaction organized by the National Kidney Registry.
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The report by the non-profit Patient Rights Advocate analyzed 43 Iowa hospitals and found 26 are not in compliance with the 2021 Hospital Price Transparency Rule.
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At a time when many rural hospitals continue to make the tough choice to shutter their obstetrics units and stop delivering babies, some have found ways to make their units survive and, sometimes, even thrive.
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The University of Iowa's original bid of $28 million was reconsidered and chosen as the best and highest option.
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On this archived episode of River to River we listen back to a conversation with the retired director of the University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center.