rural health

Iowa has among the fewest number of OB-GYN specialists per capita of any state in the country, according to 2022 data from the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

The report by the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform analyzed federal data and found 61 percent of rural Iowa hospitals no longer deliver babies.

At a time when many rural hospitals continue to make the tough choice to shutter their obstetrics units and stop delivering babies, some have found ways to make their units survive and, sometimes, even thrive.

A House subcommittee has advanced a bill that would require the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services to provide oversight of temporary medical staffing agencies and cap wages for workers.

For some towns in rural Iowa, it's possible to shrink and yet still thrive.

You turn on the tap and expect clean water to come out, but that comes with a cost you might not realize. It takes a confluence of federal, state and local dollars to keep water flowing to a faucet near you.

Yield Giving has donated more than $14 billion to more than 1,600 entities since 2019, including the Siouxland Community Health Center.

A look at how a lack of maternity healthcare resources in Iowa affects outcomes for parents and babies, plus how new abortion restrictions may impact care

Iowa physician assistants who have practiced medicine for at least two years will no longer need to be supervised by a specific physician under a new law.

For some towns in rural Iowa, it's possible to shrink and yet still thrive.