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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

Health and human provider relief fund allocations to Iowa hospitals, as of June 3, 2020

Relief payments distributed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the Health Resources and Services Administration have gone to the following Iowa hospitals, as of June

By IowaWatch database of U.S. HHS data compiled by Lyle Muller

/ 3 Jun 2020

24 rural Iowa counties opt for single polling site amid COVID-19 concerns

Voters in one Iowa county of 9,000 cast their ballots the same way people purchase a Big Mac: in the drivethrough. The Bloomfield Fire Department, the usual polling location

By Danielle Gehr / IowaWatch

/ 2 Jun 2020

24 rural Iowa counties opt for single polling site amid COVID-19 concerns

2020 and 2018 polling sites in Iowa's 99 counties

Iowa voters went to polls to cast votes in the June 2 primary amid a global pandemic. Election officials took precautions to avoid spreading COVID-19, which included in many

By Suzanne Behnke, IowaWatch

/ 2 Jun 2020

2020 and 2018 polling sites in Iowa's 99 counties

Institute for Nonprofit News names IowaWatch’s Suzanne Behnke to national Emerging Leaders Council

Suzanne Behnke, executive director of the Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism and its news outlet, IowaWatch, has been named to the Institute for Nonprofit News Emerging Leaders Council. INN

By IowaWatch

/ 26 May 2020

Institute for Nonprofit News names IowaWatch’s Suzanne Behnke to national Emerging Leaders Council

Evans: The benefit that comes from perspective

The shackles could not hold us. The Evanses cast them aside last week and traveled to Bloomfield and Cedar Rapids to visit our parents. There are few social distancing concerns

By Randy Evans / Stray Thoughts

/ 26 May 2020

Evans: The benefit that comes from perspective

Tell us about your mental health struggles amid COVID-19, other disasters

We're digging into the stressful toll of wildfires, hurricanes and floods — and now COVID-19 on top of them. We need your help. Every year, weather-related disasters

By Suzanne Behnke, IowaWatch

/ 20 May 2020

Tell us about your mental health struggles amid COVID-19, other disasters

Evans: No hugs and casseroles make this more difficult

We always can use more humor. Even during a pandemic. At least that was my justification for a “thought” I shared with the world on social media last week. A

By Randy Evans / Stray Thoughts

/ 20 May 2020

Evans: No hugs and casseroles make this more difficult

Health and human provider relief fund allocations to Iowa hospitals, as of May 13, 2020

Relief payments distributed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the Health Resources and Services Administration have gone to the following Iowa hospitals. The funds come

By IowaWatch database of U.S. HHS data compiled by Lyle Muller

/ 19 May 2020

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

COVID-19 scuttles jobs, internships for Iowa’s college students

Paige Marsh went through five interviews before getting a job offer from a national insurance company, headquartered in Des Moines, back in January. “I have been in touch with the

By Gunnar Davis, Daria Mather, Tanner Krueger, Ann Haakonson and Jonathan Facio, Simpson College

/ 14 May 2020