Imagine a 3-year-old boy waking up from a groggy sleep surrounded by tubes and wires like some sort of robot. He’s out of a successful surgery, but the road to recovery is just beginning. That’s the situation Chad and Amanda Zenisek found themselves in this past summer as their youngest son, Evan, recovered from open-heart surgery at University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital.

Hear from a licensed mental health counselor at University of Iowa Health Care about ways to practice, foster, and develop gratitude in our day-to-day lives.

If you live in Iowa, you’ve probably seen news stories about cancer in our state. The headlines can be upsetting — cancer rates are rising, and people are trying to figure out why. But there’s good news, too. Right now, more people and organizations than ever before are working together to fight cancer in Iowa. Across the state, teams are following a strong action plan created by the Iowa Cancer…

After nearly five years of thoughtful planning, design, and construction, University of Iowa Health Care opened the doors to the beautiful new North Liberty campus on April 28, 2025. Six months later, the campus is surpassing expectations, becoming an anchor for the growing community and drawing patients from across the state and the country to receive care at the state-of-the-art campus...

Joe Judge sums up his eldest daughter Millie’s early days of life succinctly: “Everything was going fine, until it wasn’t.” Millie was born at a hospital in Ottumwa, full-term and with little indication of anything wildly out of the ordinary, according to her mom, Betsy Judge. When Millie started having trouble breathing, her doctor then recommended a transfer to University of Iowa Health Care…

Sharon Chamberlin was vigilant about her annual lung cancer screening. Though she’d quit smoking after three decades, Chamberlin’s risk of developing lung cancer was high. Cigarette smoking is the No. 1 risk factor for lung cancer, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Elizabeth Moore, MBA, BSN, RN, is a third-generation nurse. Her dad entered nursing as a second career. Moore’s grandmother, Esther Bechtel, became a nurse after graduating from University of Iowa in 1939.

Through collaboration and access to technology, UI Health Care is helping rural hospitals deliver high-quality care close to home.

After multiple misdiagnoses, Ray Walker’s parents saw a "night and day” difference in their son’s care after arriving at University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital. When he arrived, Ray was averaging close to 20 seizures a day from focal epilepsy, a neurological condition that affects just part of the brain.

At UI Health Care’s Burn Treatment Center, specialists take on some of medicine’s most traumatic cases — helping patients like Brody Pearston heal and find hope again.