Keeping you in The Loop
Are you patient-ready? Preparing for The Joint Commission
As we await an anticipated visit from the The Joint Commission, it’s important to stay prepared and continue to review our quality and safety practices.
Iowa researcher finds weightlifting can extend lifespans
Assistant professor Jessica Gorzelitz, PhD—expert in exercise oncology within UI Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center—looks to unearth whether aerobic exercise and weightlifting impact mortality.
Announcements
- Beginning Monday, Jan. 9, UPS will no longer be providing desktop delivery of packages. Materials Services will deliver these shipments as part of their normal delivery services.
- The Consortium of Rural States—which includes the UI Institute for Clinical and Translational Science—invites all faculty to apply for inter-institutional pilot awards. A letter of intent is due by Wednesday, Jan. 18.
Today's tip
CAMBUS routes may have different service times until Jan. 15, due to the university’s winter break. CAMBUS will not operate on weekends or on university holidays.
By the numbers
Patient-related care
Total inpatients: 842 today
Total outpatient visits: 3,433 today
C-19 adult inpatients: 19 yesterday, 65 to date
C-19 pediatric inpatients: 0 yesterday, 1 to date
% positive symptomatic C-19 test results**: 18% yesterday, 20% to date
Telehealth screenings***: 21 yesterday, 105 to date
Employee-specific data
Employees tested positive (self-reported)*: 4 yesterday, 7,529 to date
Employees who have received the first COVID-19 vaccine dose: 0 yesterday, 15,794 to date
Employees who have received both the first and second/final COVID-19 vaccine doses: 0 yesterday, 15,670 to date
Visit COVID-19 by the numbers for more info
Research volunteers invited
- Cigarette smokers aged 50–80 are invited to participate in a study about when they do/do not smoke. Quitting not required. Compensation provided. Contact LungHealth@healthcare.uiowa.edu or 319-214-3980.
Find more research studies at uihc.org/studies.
Events: Join us
- ‘Prenatal stress and the developing brain: From maternal microbes to offspring microglia’: noon to 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13, via Zoom.
Outside UI Health Care
UI alum presides over US House of Representatives
Cheryl Johnson—who received a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communication from the UI in 1980—is leading the U.S. House of Representatives until a new Speaker of the House is elected, Iowa’s News Now reports.
Iowa college student crowned Mario Kart champion
The esports program at Marshalltown Community College is new to the campus but is already home to national champion Amber Lawthers, KCRG reports.
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupts again, summit crater glows
Hawaii’s Kilauea began erupting inside its summit crater yesterday—less than one month after the volcano and its larger neighbor Mauna Loa stopped releasing lava, the Associated Press reports.
Iowa men’s basketball pulls off comeback over Indiana
Stellar performances from Kris Murray, Connor McCaffery, and Filip Rebraca gave the Hawkeyes their first Big Ten win of the season over 15th-ranked Indiana, The Daily Iowan reports.
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