It has been a little over a month since we officially welcomed the downtown campus as part of University of Iowa Health Care. As communicated before the transition, for the most part, much of the day-to-day work at the downtown campus remains the same. Providers are seeing patients and delivering the same high-quality care patients have come to expect. Work is underway, however, to better…

It was almost 7 p.m. and although Bailey Hadden, RN, was near the end of her shift, she wasn’t planning on leaving anytime soon. A patient she had been caring for the past two days was about to give birth, and Hadden wanted her to have a familiar face during the vulnerable moment. Hadden’s willingness to stay late didn’t go unnoticed by the mother-to-be, whose labor was particularly drawn out and…

UI Health Care will begin a national search for the chief administrative officer position at University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital. This leadership position will oversee daily operations, strategic planning, and financial management of the children’s hospital and pediatric care initiatives.

Mark Brown was 10 years old when he first came to the University Hospital School for children with disabilities in the early 1970s as a resident student. While there he met Ron Lough, who taught industrial arts—woodworking, graphic arts, metal working—at the school now known as the Center for Disabilities and Development (CDD), located on the University of Iowa Health Care main campus in Iowa…

UI Sports Medicine is the official medical provider of the Iowa Heartlanders, the professional minor league hockey team based in Coralville, Iowa. Terese Whipple, MD, serves as the Heartlanders’ team lead physician, and Jason Geisler, LAT, ATC, is the team’s athletic trainer. Whipple and Geisler are care providers with UI Sports Medicine, part of the UI Department of Orthopedics and…

One University of Iowa faculty member’s research on how drugs affect the brain’s function has been recognized on a national stage. Stephanie Gantz, Carver College of Medicine assistant professor in molecular physiology and biophysics, was named one of the 2024 Sloan Research Fellows by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The honor, one of the most prestigious awards given to early-career scholars,…

Jeanie Finnegan, RN, CNOR, and her daughter Ashley Finnegan, BSN, RN, CNOR, represent two generations of nursing with UI Health Care. Although they work in different departments on opposite sides of the organization, they have a lineage of providing patient care that amounts to more than 30 years. Jeanie was drawn to UI Health Care four years ago for ophthalmology. With more than 25 years of…