No. 1
Hospital in Iowa, ranked by U.S. News & World Report
Here for Patients and Families
Here for Patients and Families
Making all of Iowa better guides everything we do. We’re here to provide outstanding primary and specialty care — with expertise, healing, comfort, and understanding — whenever Iowans need us.
World-Class Neonatal Care
It's an expectant parent's worst nightmare: waiting in a hospital room for days, surrounded by doctors and nurses, hoping their baby won't be born too early.
For Randall and Mollie Keen of ankeny, Iowa, they needed their baby to be born after midnight on July 5, 2024 — the 21-week mark for Mollie Keen's pregnancy. If the Keens could hold off until then, the expert neonatal team at UI Health Care Stead Family Children's Hospital would do everything they could to save their son, Nash.
Patient Care by the numbers
1,095
Staffed inpatient beds
40,500
Inpatient admissions
1.5M
Clinic visits
41,600
Major surgeries
242,000
Minor surgical procedures
3,998
Births
583
Organ and tissue transplants
Data from University of Iowa Health Care, Calendar Year 2025
New home for family medicine
In December 2025, the Department of Family and Community Medicine began seeing patients at a new location in northeast Iowa City.
Iowa's leading arrhythmia specialists
UI Health Care’s cardiac electrophysiology (EP) team, led by Paari Dominic, MBBS, MPH, is Iowa’s most experienced for diagnosing and treating complex and rare heart rhythm disorders.
HERE FOR IOWA
University of Iowa Health Care's Annual Report