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A face mask warning on a clinic door at Washington County Hospital & Clinics on Friday, May 8, 2020. The response Iowa hospitals were giving COVID-19 was in the earlier stages.
Seventy-six of Iowa s 82 critical access hospitals ended the last fiscal year for which they ve reported financial data with negative operating margins, new data IowaWatch analyzed revealed.
Only six critical access hospitals – those with 25 or fewer beds and designated as essential for rural communities – brought in more revenue from patient care than what they spend on providing that care, the data show.
“If you were vulnerable before this, you re more vulnerable now,” Kirk Norris, the Iowa Hospital Association s president and CEO, said in an interview this week.
One patient threatened to shoot Dr. Terry Hunt if physical therapy didn t relieve his pain as effectively as opioids did. Another harassed his staff, .
One patient threatened to shoot Dr. Terry Hunt if physical therapy didn’t relieve his pain as effectively as opioids did. Another harassed his staff, then
Published: 14 February 2021 14 February 2021
Mankato, Minnesota - It s Saturday morning and your child fell while playing in the backyard. He can t put any weight on his rapidly swelling ankle, and he is sweating and crying in pain. Should you head to the Emergency Department or Urgent Care?
If you ve been in a similar situation and wondered which option is better, you are not alone. Although Mayo Clinic Health System has offered Urgent Care for more than 20 years, many people are confused about when to use it.
Here are a few differences between Emergency Departments and Urgent Care clinics:
Severity of health problems
Photo Illustration of Rochester Skyline c. 2020. (Traci Westcott / twestcott@postbulletin.com)
There’s a saying about downtown Rochester in the 1970s and early 1980s: if someone set off a loaded cannon on the corner of Fourth Street and First Avenue, the ball would sail through the air a long time before it struck anything.
The lack of activity was a symptom of spiking interest in the “cornfield” communities, which offered bountiful parking spaces and plots exponentially cheaper than what developers could acquire in the city’s center. Retail powerhouses migrated to surrounding malls, leaving the downtown gutted.
“If you were walking down Broadway, it was almost like a ghost town,” said Terry Spaeth, assistant city administrator.