“Our goal is to provide both of these populations with more convenient access to care by locating some of our primary care services closer to where they live,” she said.īy co-locating a sports medicine clinic in the same Urgent Care-Cedar Rapids space, UIHC aims to provide a “seamless experience for patients who seek care for orthopedic injuries.” Orthopedics Many UIHC employees, additionally, live in Cedar Rapids and want to get their health care through their employer, according to Shoemaker. Some of these patients prefer to receive their primary care services within the same health system to allow for better continuity of care.” “Many of these people first became established patients with UI Health Care because they have complex specialty care needs. “We have thousands of patients who currently live in Cedar Rapids,” Shoemaker said. University officials Tuesday told The Gazette they did not have project costs “readily available.” They’re leasing the new clinics’ space, according to a UIHC spokeswoman Laura Shoemaker. To this week’s news of UI’s clinic openings in Cedar Rapids, UnityPoint Health-Cedar Rapids President and CEO Michelle Niermann said, “UnityPoint Health is already well positioned to serve our Cedar Rapids community with primary care, urgent care and multi-specialty options.” Specifically, UI Urgent Care locations - like its other two in Coralville and Iowa City - can provide IV fluids, stitches, X-rays, and casting for broken bones. They provide acute-care options for minor illnesses and injuries “and typically have shorter wait times than a busy emergency room,” according to a UIHC announcement of the Cedar Rapids opening. You will begin to receive our Daily News updates. Add your contacts. UIHC officials said the new Cedar Rapids clinics - expanding on existing pediatrics and OB-GYN clinics in the city - offer Cedar Rapids-based patients a more convenient option for continuity of care. “Our primary and secondary care clinics focus on teaching, growing to train more residents and medical students each year.” “Expansion of tertiary care services at UIHC does not threaten community hospitals,” according to an August UIHC presentation to the State Health Facilities Council, which approved the North Liberty project. UIHC executives responded by asserting the North Liberty project aims to expand the university’s ability to care for the sickest and most acute patients across the state. Luke’s - in its application to build a new $395 million, 469,000-square-foot hospital and clinics site in North Liberty, along Forevergreen Road off Interstate 380.Ĭommunity hospitals voiced concern UIHC was veering out of its lane by trying to compete for primary care patients in the corridor - which the local providers said they have capacity to serve. UIHC recently faced pushback from Cedar Rapids-area providers - including Mercy and St. The goal, according to UI Community Clinics Director of Clinical Services Rachel Kirchner, is to “expand convenient care options for people in Cedar Rapids, as well as provide better continuity of care for the thousands of existing UI Health Care patients and employees that live in the Cedar Rapids area.”
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