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With the April 2025 opening of a new medical center campus in North Liberty, Iowa, UI Health Care gives patients even greater access to specialized care. The North Liberty campus offers orthopedic services across a complete range of musculoskeletal subspecialties. The facility also features a walk-in clinic for acute orthopedic injuries, plus a large indoor physical therapy gym and outdoor rehab space.
Orthopedic surgical services include 12 operating rooms with surgical robotics capabilities as well as shelled space for four additional ORs. There are designated areas for pre- and postoperative care and two additional rooms designed for orthopedic procedures that don’t require a surgical suite.
The North Liberty campus also features an emergency department, inpatient and outpatient pharmacy with 24/7 drive-thru service, clinical lab services, advanced diagnostic imaging, dedicated space for research and teaching, and amenities for patients — all in one convenient location.
The opening of the North Liberty campus means ease of access to high-quality orthopedics care. It also creates muchneeded space and opportunities for expanding patient care, education and training, and clinical research at the university campus. It’s a major component of the university’s facilities master plan to modernize facilities and expand access for complex and critical patient care to Iowans while facilitating clinical research and education.
When UI Health Care assumed operations of the hospital at 500 E. Market St. in Iowa City, several goals were clear: Make sure that patients continued to receive accessible, outstanding care; preserve jobs in the community and maintain an open medical staff model for area physicians who had been affiliated with the hospital; and make technology and infrastructure upgrades to fully establish the downtown campus as an integral part of the academic health system.
A major first step for the downtown campus was the transition to the electronic medical record system used on the university and North Liberty campuses. It marked the completion of a key priority in optimizing clinical operations and improving patient flow.
Investments in facility and infrastructure upgrades also were key. July 2025 marked the reopening of a 26-bed inpatient unit that had been closed for several years. The unit was renovated and optimized for inpatient family medicine care for patients with heart conditions, diabetes, severe infections, and kidney disease, for example. The unit also gives resident physicians in family medicine a unique training experience in a community-based setting and offers greater opportunities to work with family medicine faculty and specialty consulting physicians.
Beginning in October 2025, patients scheduling cardiac electrophysiology (EP) procedures had the option of receiving care at the downtown campus. The reopening of the EP lab — part of the cardiac catheterization lab at the downtown location — further strengthened a commitment to enhancing community health care while expanding access and reducing wait times for important procedures. The EP lab is outfitted with modern technology and equipment. Pacemaker and cardioverter defibrillator implant procedures are available at the downtown campus, along with cardiac ablation and cardioversion procedures.
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