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ISL launches no-cosigner graduate loans for Iowa health, law and business students
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ISL Education Lending has introduced two no-cosigner graduate loan programs to help Iowa students cover funding gaps after federal PLUS loans for new graduate and professional borrowers ended.
Johnson Fitness & Wellness adds Nike Strength Equipment to U.S. lineup
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Johnson Fitness & Wellness is expanding its strength-training assortment with Nike Strength Equipment, starting this month at 25 U.S. stores and online.
Arsenal Credit Union and FHLB Des Moines grant $20,000 to The Kaufman Fund
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Arsenal Credit Union and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines awarded a $20,000 Member Impact Fund grant to The Kaufman Fund in St. Louis on Aug. 10, 2026. The money will support services for veterans, military families and at-risk children…
Wertz Law Firm issues Iowa workers’ comp rate guide for 2026
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Wertz Law Firm P.C. has released guidance on Iowa’s 2026 workers’ compensation benefit rates and scheduled member calculations.
Comfort Keepers explains the difference between in-home care and home health care in Council Bluffs
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Comfort Keepers of Council Bluffs is outlining how non-medical in-home care differs from clinical home health care as families weigh support options for aging parents.
Medical Associates Health Plans goes live on Elligint Health’s Helios platform
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Iowa-based Medical Associates Health Plans has launched Helios Care Management and Disease Management to consolidate clinical operations on one cloud-native system.
Dr. Jill Urich spotlights purpose-driven leadership through coaching and education
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Dr. Jill Urich, a longtime Iowa education leader and executive coach, is being featured by Influential Women for her work helping people build strengths, lead with curiosity, and create stronger teams.
Muscatine launches sponsorship push for parks, sports tourism and wellness
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The City of Muscatine has launched its first formal community sponsorship initiative to support parks, recreation, sports tourism, public wellness and economic development.
Iowa adopts SICPA secure temporary tags to curb counterfeits
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Iowa has launched a statewide secure temporary tag system with SICPA to make vehicle tags harder to fake and easier for police to verify.
Kathy Anne Jones expands wellness coaching for women over 40
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Kathy Anne Jones, a bio-scientist, wellness coach, natural chef and author, is broadening her work to help women over 40 navigate weight loss, metabolic changes and GLP-1 use. Her new science-based framework focuses on the signals behind eating…
Iowa DOT adopts SICPA temporary tag system to curb fraud
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Iowa’s Department of Transportation has launched a statewide temporary-tag system with SICPA to make vehicle tags harder to counterfeit and easier for police to verify.
Iowa DOT rolls out secure temporary vehicle tags with SICPA
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Iowa launched a statewide system for secure, verifiable temporary vehicle tags on January 1 in partnership with SICPA. The change is meant to make counterfeiting harder, help officers identify fake or expired tags faster, and reduce safety risks…
TMF gives $250,000 to fund rural hospital research in Texas
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TMF Health Quality Institute donated $250,000 to the TORCH Foundation to study how hospital access affects health outcomes in rural Texas.
Bee Line expands into Iowa, Missouri and New York
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Bee Line is expanding operations into Iowa, Missouri and New York to meet rising demand for higher cleaning standards across healthcare, education and commercial facilities.
Horses for Mental Health campaign raises $960,394
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Horses for Mental Health said its fifth annual May campaign raised $960,394 for programs that use horses in mental health and personal growth services.
Wixted & Company joins PR Consultants Group network
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PR Consultants Group added Des Moines-based Wixted & Company as its newest member and Iowa representative, expanding access to senior communications expertise across more than 50 U.S. markets.
CMTA backs research on when to treat CMT1A and CMT1E
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The Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association is investing $165,000 in University of Iowa research aimed at improving treatment timing, biomarker development and clinical trial design for CMT1A and CMT1E. The work could help determine when therapies…
Certintell and partners back CMS ACCESS Model for rural care
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Certintell, JoinCareTeam and Hancock County Health System are aligning a five-year telehealth collaboration with CMS’s new ACCESS Model, which targets better chronic care delivery and lower costs in safety-net and rural settings.
OpenLoop widens telehealth platform into higher-acuity care
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OpenLoop is expanding its infrastructure for employers, payers and health systems to support medically necessary care for complex patients.
Discovery Living reports 37% drop in urgent care and ER visits after IntellectAbility training
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Discovery Living says emergency and urgent care visits fell 37% in the year after it rolled out IntellectAbility’s Fatal Five Training for all staff.
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