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100 Years Later, Hospital Mission Stands Strong
Recently, Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames celebrated its 100th anniversary. As part of the festivities, CEO Brian Dieter recited the original building’s dedication as it was delivered in 1916 by...
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Homelessness, Health and Hope
In 2014, county and city leaders decided that something needed to be done about central Florida’s alarming homeless population. The issue plagued not just the region’s streets, but also emergency rooms...
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What is the Iowa Hospital ‘Why’?
Does this capture the Iowa “why”? Even longtime Iowans might struggle to remember the “Iowa…A Place to Grow” slogan and its accompanying clover leaf-like symbol that Governor Robert Ray adopted more...
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Mental Illness and Our Disconnected Society
It’s been said that people are at their best when things are at their worst. Think about that and it explains a lot of things: Why crime went down immediately after 9/11. Why drivers let others merge...
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The Legacy of Community-Based Care
Owen had been living outside for many years. He suffered an injury to his back and neck about 20 years ago. He wasn’t able to work and support himself after that. He was proud of how he cared for his...
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The Turning Away from Medicaid
On the turning away From the pale and downtrodden – Pink Floyd It’s been said that the worst thing about having a disability is that people see it before they see the person. That could be the primary...
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Medicaid is a Commitment to Care
The number of Iowans on Medicaid – about 560,000 – is not a trifling figure, not in a state of 3.1 million people. For starters, that is more people than live in Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Sioux City,...
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Hospitals Stand with Medicaid Recipients
At last week’s meeting of the Iowa Health Policy Oversight Committee, dozens of Iowans came to the Capitol to oppose privatization of the program, while a handful of non-Iowans were brought in to...
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Would You Buy a Used Car from These People?
Last January, the state of Iowa went shopping for a vehicle that would carry out the governor’s order to implement Medicaid managed care by New Year’s Day of 2016. What’s transpired since then would...
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IHA Reports on Iowa Employers’ Wellness Efforts
IHA and Iowa Business Council have partnered to produce a new report designed to help businesses, health care providers and employees work better together to improve health and control health care...
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Hospitals Don’t Fear Change; They Lead It
Let’s just clear one thing up from the get-go: Iowa hospital leaders do not fear change. Anyone who does fear change really has no business in health care administration – or health care, for that...
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A Memorial for Medicaid Enrollees?
American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial, Washington, D.C. “I don’t think the medic ever saw anybody so messed up and still living. Doc was trying to give a shot of morphine. I looked over at him,...
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Death of a Hospital
It’s a town like hundreds of others scattered across the nation’s midsection. The county seat with about 9,000 people, tiny by coastal urban standards, but not quite “small” by local standards. An...
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Medicaid Managed Care: Good Source for Bad News
So, have you heard the news about Medicaid managed care? Well, let’s do a little flyover and see what’s making headlines around the nation. Better tighten that seat belt – it’s definitely going to be a...
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Medicaid Managed Care: Promises Without Proof
Iowa’s march toward Medicaid managed care moved several steps forward last week, with the Department of Human Services (DHS) presenting the four winning bidders that will be contracted to manage health...
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Why We Celebrate Medicaid
As of July 30, Medicaid has for five decades provided health coverage that helps low-income seniors, children and people with disabilities get needed health care. It provides parents and other adults...
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Hotel or Hospital? Why Not Both?
A while back, a certain Iowa newspaper ran an online quiz of sorts, using a slide show of building exteriors and interiors and challenging readers to determine which images were from hotels and which...
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Will Managed Care Bring Value – or Ruin It?
The primary intent for bringing managed care to Iowa’s Medicaid program is to create value. That is also an overarching goal of Iowa hospitals. This is because value – real value – not only reduces...
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From Engaged Patient to Data Monster
Who is Mark Cuban and who gave him a medical degree? That may have been the common query from health care providers the world over after Cuban shared on Twitter that he intends to have his blood drawn...
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What Better Policing, Better Health Have in Common
Think of why the police exist and that popular synonym for police, “law enforcement.” That term is casually applied, but its use and popularity has real meaning and implications. In contemporary...
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