Michaela Ramm

Danielle Pettit-Majewski is the new director of the Johnson County Public Health Department. She previously served about eight years as the director at Washington County Public Health.

The CDC has awarded $500,000 to the University of Iowa and other public health organizations to improve COVID-19 vaccine rates in 17 of Iowa’s smallest communities.

Several Eastern Iowa health care providers have signed on with the new insurance company entering Iowa’s Medicaid program – a …

DES MOINES – State Auditor Rob Sand alleged Wednesday that both insurance companies that manage Medicaid in Iowa have breached …

DES MOINES – Gov. Kim Reynolds called for the resignation of the director of one of Iowa’s largest agencies as …

DES MOINES ? Iowa's new Medicaid head said he would not close the door to adding a fourth managed-care organization to the state's program. But he made it clear he did not want the state to continue to care for the Iowa's most complex cases, who already have been moved from one insurance company to Iowa's fee-for-service program.With just more than a month under his belt as the new director of Iowa's $5 billion ...

CEDAR RAPIDS ? Wyatt Dagit has seen families left second-guessing.As a hospital chaplain for the past 10 years, Dagit said he's seen families having to make decisions on behalf of loved ones who are in medical crisis.It can be even tougher for families who have not had end-of-life conversations with those loved ones.?The family is doing the best they can on their behalf, but it is really tough when they ...

CORALVILLE ? Officials with the Unitarian Universalist Society of Iowa City are preparing to open their new church next month, which they say will be ?one of the greenest churches in Iowa.?The facility, located at 2355 Oakdale Road in Coralville, was designed to be energy efficient and to have as little impact on the environment as possible. With its biophilic principles and emphasis on a connection to nature, ...

IOWA CITY ? Craig Rockenbach has decided to better himself.Rockenbach, 37, of Iowa City, is a habitual offender who most recently spent 27 months in prison after being sentenced in 2016 for theft in the second degree, a Class D felony.When he was released in mid-July, Rockenbach said he didn't ?need to be doing that anymore.? So he sought the help of an Iowa City-based program aimed at assisting prisoners ...