Obstetrician and gynecologist Taylar Swartz uses an ultrasound scanner to check the health of Addie Comegys’ baby on May 30. Comegys, who said she was due in late August, had traveled 45 minutes for her prenatal appointment at Mahaska Health in Oskaloosa ...

Iowa is seeking up to $1 billion in federal funding to bolster rural hospitals and clinics through a new program created under the sweeping Republican tax-and-spending law passed earlier this year — a law that also slashed billions from Medicaid and ...

A recent study by the Iowa Hospital Association found that the state’s 118 community hospitals provide more than 74,000 jobs, pay more than $3.6 billion in salaries and benefits and create a $6.1 billion impact to Iowa’s economy, according to a release ...

The Rural Health Transformation Program will allocate $50 billion to rural hospitals over five years. It's part of the "big, beautiful bill." The program aims to offset potential losses from the new law's reduced Medicaid spending, projected at $911 ...

A newly filed lawsuit alleges a woman died after waiting 10 hours to see a doctor at Des Moines' Iowa Methodist Medical Center. (Photo via Google Earth)for The owner of two central Iowa hospitals and two of its physicians are now facing lawsuits over ...

Michele Schoonover will retire June 7 as CEO of Vinton, Iowa-based Virginia Gay Hospitals and Clinics, according to an article published on communitynewspapergroup.com. Ms. Schoonover is a 44-year veteran of the hospital, according to the article.

The wedding was planned for Sept. 20, 2025, but eight weeks before their wedding day, plans changed at Ames’ Mary Greeley Medical Center.