Lyle Muller, IowaWatch

Lessons learned in real time at rural hospitals during pandemic

Quicker planning. Working together as networks. Focused staff deployment. The COVID-19 pandemic is giving hospital administrators and their healthcare providers ample opportunity in real time to learn new best

By Lyle Muller, IowaWatch

/ 16 Oct 2020

Lessons learned in real time at rural hospitals during pandemic

Natural disasters during COVID-19 add to the misery

Hurricane Laura drilled Louisiana before moving north in late August, causing widespread destruction and death behind. A few weeks later, so many storms had been reported that the National Hurricane

By Lyle Muller, IowaWatch

/ 16 Oct 2020

Natural disasters during COVID-19 add to the misery

Stimulus money was only a short-term fix as rural hospitals brace for the next COVID-19 surges

One by one, COVID-19 outbreaks popped up in April and May at meatpacking plants across the country, fanning fears that the infectious coronavirus could spread rapidly into rural states.

By Lyle Muller, IowaWatch

/ 16 Oct 2020

Stimulus money was only a short-term fix as rural hospitals brace for the next COVID-19 surges

Bill keeping government open gives hospitals new COVID-19 related Medicare payback rules, but no loan forgiveness

UPDATED: The appropriations bill Congress sent to President Donald Trump Sept. 30 to keep the federal government open through Dec. 11 includes a section giving hospitals one year, instead of the current three months, to start paying back all of the accelerated Medicare payments they received in the

By Lyle Muller, IowaWatch

/ 29 Sep 2020

Bill keeping government open gives hospitals new COVID-19 related Medicare payback rules, but no loan forgiveness

Iowa hospitals drew almost $1B in Medicare advances to deal with COVID-19

Seventy-seven Iowa hospitals collected $928.3 million in accelerated and advance Medicare payments that were available as a government stimulus to cover expenses in the COVID-19 pandemic's early days last spring, an IowaWatch analysis of Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services data shows.

By Lyle Muller, IowaWatch

/ 10 Sep 2020

Iowa hospitals drew almost $1B in Medicare advances to deal with COVID-19

Iowan describes the toll COVID-19 took on his family: an IowaWatch interview

Jose Gabriel Martinez taught his family to watch out for and care for each other. They needed that lesson when COVID-19 ripped through their Iowa family, his surviving son says in this IowaWatch interview.

By Lyle Muller, IowaWatch

/ 10 Jul 2020

Iowan describes the toll COVID-19 took on his family: an IowaWatch interview

Industry leaders expect COVID-19 to take some Iowa hospitals down

Some rural Iowa hospitals will not survive the COVID-19 outbreak, industry leaders said Wednesday. That dire warning came as the Iowa Hospital Association revealed projections that show the state’s 118 hospitals, collectively, could lose as much as $2.17 billion in revenue by the end of this year.

By Lyle Muller, IowaWatch

/ 3 Jun 2020

Industry leaders expect COVID-19 to take some Iowa hospitals down

More than $500M in federal aid heading to Iowa hospitals would cover only half their COVID-19 losses

Iowa hospitals received $190.3 million in CARES Act relief fund payments in April and were expecting as much as $360 million more in a second round of federal relief aid, interviews and documents shared with IowaWatch show. Part of a special national collaboration, "Slammed: Rural Health Care and CO

By Lyle Muller, IowaWatch

/ 19 May 2020

More than $500M in federal aid heading to Iowa hospitals would cover only half their COVID-19 losses

FDA clears Iowa sanitizer maker of making false claims about COVID-19

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared an Iowa hand sanitizer company of making misleading claims about its product’s ability to “mitigate, prevent, treat, diagnose, or cure COVID-19.” Prefense LLC, of Muscatine, faced an April 23 FDA complaint that made the company the nation’s first manufac

By Lyle Muller, IowaWatch

/ 18 May 2020

FDA clears Iowa sanitizer maker of making false claims about COVID-19

We didn't do it, says first U.S. hand sanitizer maker accused of false claims to treat, cure COVID-19

An Iowa-based hand sanitizer manufacturer the Food and Drug Administration cited in April for saying its products could “mitigate, prevent, treat, diagnose, or cure COVID-19” says the federal agency is wrong. An attorney for Prefense LLC, of Muscatine, also said the company told the FDA that before

By Lyle Muller, IowaWatch

/ 11 May 2020

Lessons learned in real time at rural hospitals during pandemic

Natural disasters during COVID-19 add to the misery

Stimulus money was only a short-term fix as rural hospitals brace for the next COVID-19 surges

Bill keeping government open gives hospitals new COVID-19 related Medicare payback rules, but no loan forgiveness

Iowa hospitals drew almost $1B in Medicare advances to deal with COVID-19

Iowan describes the toll COVID-19 took on his family: an IowaWatch interview

Industry leaders expect COVID-19 to take some Iowa hospitals down

More than $500M in federal aid heading to Iowa hospitals would cover only half their COVID-19 losses

FDA clears Iowa sanitizer maker of making false claims about COVID-19

We didn't do it, says first U.S. hand sanitizer maker accused of false claims to treat, cure COVID-19

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