Health

This was the next step on our pesticide drift project

Last week, we hosted a discussion regarding our pesticide drift sensor project. Twenty-five people from various industries including scientists from the University of Illinois, local public health officials, the Champaign County Farm Bureau, and environmental focus groups gathered at the Champaign-U

By Claire Hettinger/ Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 11 Nov 2019

This was the next step on our pesticide drift project

Seeking a Cure: The Quest to Save Rural Hospitals

A seven-state news investigation revealed plenty of problems facing rural patients but also a variety of creative attempts to solve them. The head of the National Rural Health Association puts it this way: “Everyone realizes we’re at a crisis point.”

By Jennifer Hemmingsen/For Iowa Watch

/ 30 Sep 2019

Seeking a Cure: The Quest to Save Rural Hospitals

A seven-state news investigation revealed plenty of problems facing rural patients but also a variety of creative attempts to solve them. The head of the National Rural Health Association puts it this way: “Everyone realizes we’re at a crisis point."

By Jennifer Hemmingsen / For IowaWatch

/ 30 Sep 2019

Iowa Rural Hospitals Make Tough Choices To Stay Lean, Provide Needed Care

Hospital leaders say a policy fix is needed to ensure the future of rural hospitals in Iowa and across the country that are succumbing to financial pressures and closing their

By Chelsea Keenan, IowaWatch, Sara Konrad Baranowski, Iowa Falls Times Citizen, Natalie Krebs / Side Effects Public Media and Iowa Public Radio, Mark Mahoney, N'west Iowa REVIEW and Michaela Ramm, The Gazette

/ 30 Sep 2019

Iowa Rural Hospitals Make Tough Choices To Stay Lean, Provide Needed Care

‘It Follows Them Forever’: Interest In Storm Survivors' Mental Health Increases

Research shows that recovery from natural disasters needs to go deeper than repairing homes and communities. Survivors need mental health help too.

By Sarah Beth Guevara/News21 and Katie Hunger/News21

/ 28 Aug 2019

‘It Follows Them Forever’: Interest In Storm Survivors' Mental Health Increases

Podcast: Addressing The Midwest's Mental Health Care Resource Shortage

This podcast of an original IowaWatch Connection radio report lets those in the Midwest U.S. trying to attract the necessary resources to meet mental health care demand in flood-stricken regions tell you about the problem. It includes one health care center that is trying to address the health care

By Kelly Page

/ 5 Aug 2019

Podcast: Addressing The Midwest's Mental Health Care Resource Shortage

Ethical Dilemma For Rural Psychologists: Taking More Clients But Less Care

Psychologist Lauren Welter says she faces an ethical issue with no easy answer on a regular basis: Should she take on more clients and provide less care to those she already sees, or turn away potential clients who have no alternatives?

By Kelly Page

/ 23 Jul 2019

Ethical Dilemma For Rural Psychologists: Taking More Clients But Less Care

Mental Health Care Providers In Flood-Stricken Rural Areas Short-handed But Expecting More Demand

FLOODED SENSES: MEETING MENTAL HEALTH CARE DEMAND IN DISASTER-STICKEN IOWA. Iowa does not have enough psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists or other mental health care providers to handle an increasing need to care for farmers dealing with relentless flooding this year, several mental health expe

By Kelly Page

/ 23 Jul 2019

Mental Health Care Providers In Flood-Stricken Rural Areas Short-handed But Expecting More Demand

Dealing With The Stigma Of Seeking Mental Health Care

A stigma exists in agricultural communities when it comes to seeking mental healthcare. Moreover, Kyle Godwin, who recently researched patterns in farmer suicide for his University of Iowa School of

By Kelly Page

/ 23 Jul 2019

Dealing With The Stigma Of Seeking Mental Health Care

Most States Legalizing Pot Growing Have Yet to Grapple with Power Demand

Cannabis cultivation in the United States this year will consume 1.8 million megawatt-hours of electricity, about as much as the nation’s 15,000 Starbucks stores. And next

By Nate Seltenrich/Fairwarning

/ 27 Jun 2019

Most States Legalizing Pot Growing Have Yet to Grapple with Power Demand

Inside The Reporter's Notebook: Revealing Alarming Deaths At Institution For Severely Disabled Iowans

Several front-line state workers at the Glenwood Resource Center, a state-run institution in Glenwood, Iowa, that cares for severely disabled patients, have raised concerns about the quality of

By Kelly Page

/ 20 Jun 2019