Started in 2009 as a partnership between the University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital and the Iowa Hawkeyes, the Kid Captain program honors pediatric patients by celebrating their incredible stories.

University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center is once again ranked among the nation’s “Best Hospitals” and the No. 1 hospital in Iowa, according to the 2025-2026 rankings published by U.S. News & World Report.

As she grappled with her competitor in the semifinals of the Iowa high school state wrestling tournament in February 2024, Eve Skrocki felt a “pop” in her elbow.

After nearly 50 years in nursing, Lou Ann Montgomery’s reflections on her career center not on herself and personal achievements, but on the mentors, teams, and colleagues who made the work worthwhile.

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, they needed their baby to be born after midnight on July 5, 2024. If the baby could hold off until then, the expert neonatal team at University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital would do…

For some, pregnancy can be one of the most exciting stages of a person’s life. It can be a period of anticipation, reflection, and preparation toward welcoming a new life into the world.

Michael Donahoo, 61, tried for more than a decade to manage the increasingly debilitating pain plaguing his left shoulder. Luckily, UI Health Care orthopedic surgery team is the first in Iowa to use the pyrocarbon implant for patients with advanced shoulder arthritis.

As RAGBRAI riders travel across the Hawkeye State in 2025 (July 20–26), it’s common for them to see plenty of black and gold. Hawkeye pride often takes center stage, whether displayed on the gear of cyclists or adorned on homes and vehicles along the route.

Bradley Erickson, MD, MS, was recently recognized with the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, a national honor that celebrates compassionate care and humanism in health care.

A few weeks after giving birth to her first child in May 2024, Courtney Crowder was shopping with her newborn son, Clark, strapped to her chest. As she and her husband were wrangling what they needed as part of their new-parent life, a woman came up and said hello.