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Obesity Crisis: Is It Our Fat Chance?
Call it a “fat chance” or maybe the “obesity opportunity.” The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Trust for America’s Health have updated their comprehensive report on how obesity is impacting the...
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The Cheesecake Proposition
Atul Gawande is the physician whose professional credentials (Stanford, Harvard, Rhodes Scholar, surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in New York) and media friendliness (from Slate and National...
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What Kind of Physician Are We Training?
A new report from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, home of the highly regarded Dartmouth Atlas, offers medical students a glimpse of the kind of doctors they will likely...
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Iowa Volunteerism Benefits Hospitals
Iowans are well known for their generosity and results from the new Volunteering and Civic Engagement Survey quantify their willingness to serve. According to the survey, 38.4 percent of Iowans...
View ArticleMedicaid Expansion as an Economic Issue
Iowa Hospital/Health Care Economic Impact Summary Employees Payroll Total $ Impact Hospitals 71,169 $4.02 billion $6.22 billion Health Practitioners 43,742 $3.40 billion $4.60 billion Total Health...
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Poll: Most Iowans Support Medicaid Expansion
A new poll shows a majority of Iowans support expanding the state’s Medicaid program so that it would cover more low-income residents. According to the poll, which was conducted by Essman/Research in...
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Medicaid Expansion, by the Numbers
Sometimes the numbers really do tell the story. That is certainly the case with the hospital position on Medicaid expansion in Iowa. So for those who numerically inclined, here’s a rundown: 150,000:...
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Report: Medicaid Expansion Would Create 2,362 Jobs
A new study shows Medicaid expansion would add nearly $2.2 billion to Iowa’s economy over the next seven years and create more than 2,300 jobs. In addition, expansion of the state’s Medicaid program,...
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Medicaid Expansion is Winning on the Facts
Here in Iowa and across the nation, arguments for Medicaid expansion have weighed heavily on those who have taken the opposite stand. The problem for them is the facts keep getting in the way of their...
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More Medicaid Expansion Misdirection
Recent communications from opponents of Medicaid expansion, including items published in newspapers, have included confusing and misleading information. These statements have generally fallen into...
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Medicaid Expansion Sustains Iowa Priorities
“Sustainable” is an adjective that gets thrown around a lot in virtually any debate. It’s almost always in response to the affordability question and the answer is almost always in the negative, as...
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Grieving Mother Finds Hope, Healing at Iowa Hospital
This post is based on a true story that involved an Iowa hospital. Which one? We believe it could have been any of Iowa’s 118 hospitals, so we’ll leave it at that. The mother traveled nearly 1,000...
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Hospitals Must Monitor the Regulatory Tide
Regulation is a cost of doing business for every business. Of course, hospitals are no exception, except in the fact that the regulatory burden placed on health care is exceptional. Few if any other...
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Iowa Shines in Dartmouth Quality Report
A new report from the Dartmouth Atlas Project shows that Iowa hospitals continue to set a national standard for providing high-value, patient-centered care. Focusing on chronically ill Medicare...
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Focus on Quality of Living, Not Cost of Dying
Helpful hint to any aspiring communicator: Unless you know your audience intimately, don’t try being witty if the topic at hand is death and dying. Example: “(Dubuque) has been rated as one of the...
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Associations: The Essence of Advocacy, Freedom
The activities that IHA pursues, particularly with regard to advocacy, are protected under the U.S. Constitution. This is no small matter, though one which is often taken for granted, as large swaths...
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Veterans, volunteerism and changing lives
A member of Team Rubicon comforts a homeowner in tornado-ravaged Moore, Oklahoma. Seemingly every week, military units based out of Iowa return home from overseas. These scenes are repeated across the...
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A Far-Fetched Study, but Hospitals Ready to Fight
Apocalyptical “what-if” scenarios have been all the rage in Hollywood for some time as writers, producers and directors have shared their visions of a world alternately devastated by asteroids, aliens,...
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Damage Control Rules Useful Beyond Warship
The Pacific Battleship Center, which is home for the U.S.S. Iowa, recently posted a photo on its Facebook page of a sign in one of the ship’s compartments showing “The 10 Commandments of Damage...
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Troubling Trends in End-of-Life Care
In football, each play is itself a battle that is either won by the offense (by gaining yards or scoring) or the defense (by causing a loss of yards, a turnover or scoring). While the score ultimately...
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