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UnityPoint Health-Grinnell celebrates 1 year of advisory council
GRINNELL — UnityPoint Health-Grinnell celebrates the first anniversary of its Patient and Family Advisory Council, a group that helps identify opportunities to enhance care delivery, improve patient safety and ensure community perspectives are reflected in organizational decisions. Over the past year, PFAC members have reviewed initiatives, provided feedback, shared perspectives and helped identify ways to make care more accessible, welcoming and responsive to community needs. “One of our greatest opportunities to improve health care comes from listening,” says David-Paul Cavazos, UnityPoint Health-Grinnell president. “Our PFAC members generously give their time, share their experiences and help us better understand the needs of our patients and communities. Their willingness to serve will make a lasting impact, and we are incredibly grateful for their partnership.” One area of focus was increasing awareness of available health care services. The Council’s commendations sparked conversations around outreach and education efforts. Since then, UnityPoint Health-Grinnell has expanded community engagement through several initiatives, including quarterly Public Health newsletters distributed throughout Poweshiek County, hospital and clinic updates shared with local groups such as residents at the Mayflower and Seeland Park, diabetes education sessions led by Taylor Gersdorf, diabetes educator at the Diabetes and Nutrition Education Clinic and participation in
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Gov. Reynolds honors work of Inwood Nursing Facility
INWOOD, I.A. (Dakota News Now) - Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds stopped by the northwest side of the state to recognize the hard work of a local nursing home. To honor the hard work put into day-to-day operations, Reynolds presented Fellowship Village, a Sanford-operated nursing facility, with the Award for Quality Care in a Healthcare Facility.
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Central Iowa hospital celebrates three-quarters of a century
Story County Medical Center in Nevada will mark its 75th anniversary tomorrow, in what hospital marketing director Stephanie Marsau says is an incredible milestone for the organization. “Just being able to take care of generations of families is really cool,” Marsau says. “Grandma has come here and then Mom came...
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New Family Medicine Physician Joins Prairie City Medical Clinic
A new family medicine physician is working out of the Pella Medical Clinic in Prairie City. Hannah Cawthorn, DO, has joined the Pella Regional Health Center staff. She earned her medical degree from Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Des Moines and completed her family medicine residency through the Central Iowa Family Medicine Residence Program at Des Moines’ Iowa Lutheran Hospital.
Iowa Capital Dispatch
Rural Iowa pharmacy owner tells Josh Turek federal action needed to stay open
COLFAX – Spring City Pharmacy is stocked with medications, hardware supplies, cards, household goods and runs an old-school soda and ice cream bar. Brad Magg and his business partners decided to keep the pharmacy running in downtown Colfax because they remember it being a staple store while growing up in the small central Iowa community. […]
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Rural Iowa pharmacy owner tells Josh Turek federal action needed to stay open
COLFAX, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - Spring City Pharmacy is stocked with medications, hardware supplies, cards, household goods and runs an old-school soda and ice cream bar. Brad Magg and his business partners decided to keep the pharmacy running in downtown Colfax because they remember it being a staple store...
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OCAHS Becomes Third Iowa Hospital to Offer Pritikin Cardiac Rehab
Orange City Area Health System has expanded its cardiac rehabilitation services through a program combining supervised exercise with nutrition, stress management, and other lifestyle education. OCAHS says it is now the third hospital in Iowa, and the only hospital in the tri-state region, to offer Pritikin Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation. The...
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Lindsay James calls for a ‘moral reckoning’ in D.C.
CEDAR RAPIDS — Democratic congressional candidate Lindsay James framed her campaign Thursday night as a moral response to Iowans struggling with rising costs, health care pressures and distrust in government, invoking the biblical parable of the good Samaritan to argue that leaders in Washington are seeing people in distress and “turning a blind eye.” Speaking to about 100 people at Lion Bridge Brewing Co. in Cedar Rapids, James, a Presbyterian pastor and chaplain, said government has an obligation not only to help people facing hardship, but to address the systems creating those hardships. “It is time to fix the road,” James said, borrowing from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s interpretation of the good Samaritan story. James said families across northeast Iowa “are having to make impossible choices,” choosing between rent and groceries, utility bills and clothing, or medicine and other necessities “because of the cost of living crisis that is being caused by the policies coming from Washington, D.C.” She pointed to cuts affecting Medicaid and Affordable Care Act coverage, pressure on rural hospitals and Iowa’s rising cancer rates. “Our communities are making impossible choices because the people in power who have the ability to make a difference for
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Dordt Clarifies It “Does Not Have and Has Never Had” a COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement Ahead of Iowa Supreme Court Case
Dordt University is clarifying its role in COVID-19 vaccination policies connected to a case that will go before the Iowa Supreme Court later this month. Previous reporting from Community First Broadcasting on this case incorrectly stated Dordt University required nursing students to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. In a statement provided...
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MercyOne debuts robot-assisted spinal surgeries to Quad Cities
MercyOne Genesis recently announced that it is bringing advanced robotic tools to the Quad Cities in order to help patients with spinal surgeries. This new wave of technology will allow Quad Cities patients to get the help they require, without having to leave the area to get access. “For a...