New partnership will allow Iowa to help improve health care across the state
The Simulation in Motion-Iowa (SIM-IA) program will provide valuable hands-on experience for health care professionals using state-of-the art equipment and patient simulators on large trucks that can travel to communities across the state. The vehicle shown above is used by a similar program in South Dakota. Photo courtesy of the Helmsley Charitable Trust.
New partnership will allow Iowa to help improve health care across the state
New partnership will allow Iowa to help improve health care across the state
$8M Helmsley Charitable Trust grant to College of Nursing will create mobile program that delivers simulation education to health care professionals
The Check Up: Suresh Gunasekaran of the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics
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Rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations has been spotty across the nation with some healthcare organizations running into challenges getting staff to either agree to get their shots or, in some cases, not having enough doses to go around. At the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, 90% of staff have gotten their first shot. Suresh Gunasekaran, CEO of the Iowa City-based system, spoke with Modern Healthcare Managing Editor Matthew Weinstock about the vaccination efforts.
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Suresh Gunasekaran, CEO of the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics
Rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations has been spotty across the nation with some healthcare organizations running into challenges getting staff to either agree to get their shots or, in some cases, not having enough doses to go around. At the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, 90% of staff have gotten their first shot.
Suresh Gunasekaran, CEO of the Iowa City-based system, spoke with Modern Healthcare Managing Editor Matthew Weinstock about the vaccination efforts. The following is an edited transcript.
MH: Are there any particular things you’ve done to get to a 90% vaccination rate? We’re not seeing that rate across the industry.
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New research from the University of Iowa and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center demonstrates that offspring can be protected from the effects of prenatal stress by administering a neuroprotective compound during pregnancy.
Working in a mouse model, Rachel Schroeder, a student in the UI Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience, drew a connection between the work of her two mentors, Hanna Stevens, MD, PhD, UI associate professor of psychiatry and Ida P. Haller Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Andrew A. Pieper, MD, PhD, a former UI faculty member, now Morley-Mather Chair of Neuropsychiatry at Case Western Reserve University and Investigator and Director of the Neurotherapeutics Center at the Harrington Discovery Institute, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center.