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

1,178
Staffed inpatient beds
41,686
Inpatient admissions
1,671,423
Clinic visits
43,557
Major surgeries

Data from University of Iowa Health Care, Fiscal Year 2026

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