University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics must find more budget efficiencies and grow patient volumes in response to financial challenges in the health care industry, UI hospital leaders said Wednesday in seeking state regents approval of next year’s budget. It’s not a new message from hospital leaders, but they repeated it Wednesday during a state [...]

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics leaders want state regents to approve a 6 percent increase to the hospital rate for the 2014 fiscal year. The state Board of Regents meets Wednesday and Thursday in Cedar Falls. The meeting information was released Thursday. The new UIHC rate would be effective July 1. Determining the proposed [...]

A former associate director of operations for the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center and nurse at Mercy Iowa City has been sentenced to probation after police say she repeatedly took narcotics from hospital patients. Rose Marie Hayslett, 59, of Cedar Rapids, pleaded guilty in January to third-degree theft and habitual prescription drug violations, a [...]

The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics will start next week offering food composting for visitors at six dining rooms at the 14-acre health care campus. The Gazette reported Jan. 20 that UIHC Food and Nutrition Services wasted $181,000 of food in 2012. The waste amounted to 12 percent of prepared food in the operation [...]

UPDATE: The breast cancer mortality rate in Iowa has dropped significantly over the past 20 years, University of Iowa doctors said Wednesday, a trend they expect to continue thanks to better screening and treatment advancements. Age-adjusted breast cancer mortality rates were stable from 1976 to 1992, when the rates peaked, but then decreased 40 percent [...]

A large notepad at the entrance of a University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics conference room Thursday gave hospital staff a place to share their thoughts on the designs they were seeing for the new UI Children’s Hospital. “Love the colors!” one commenter wrote. “Love the green outdoor spaces,” chimed in another. It was the [...]

WEST DES MOINES — A study of space needs at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics main campus reveals an expected shortage of 100,000 to 150,000 square feet in the coming years, a university official told the state Board of Regents Wednesday. Jean Robillard, UI vice president for medical affairs, said looking three years [...]

  A state review of a University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics computer system recommends the hospital strengthen procedures for the encryption of laptop computers. The review, conducted by the State Auditor’s office and released Monday, found that certain controls can be strengthened to further ensure the reliability of financial information. The auditor’s office conducted [...]

IOWA CITY – More children are surviving in-hospital cardiac arrest than they did one decade ago, according to a University of Iowa-led study of data from hospitals using resuscitation guidelines from the American Heart Association. Lead author Dr. Saket Girotra, an interventional cardiologist at UI Hospitals & Clinics in Iowa City, said three times as [...]

IOWA CITY — Through the winding basement corridors of University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, in former storage space beneath a parking ramp, there are three model hospital rooms being used to help define the new $292 million UI Children’s Hospital. More than 500 hospital doctors, staff, patients, parents and community members have for months [...]