IOWA CITY, Iowa – University of Iowa Healthcare officials say they have now performed over 10,000 robotic procedures, the program plans to continue growing. Robotic procedures have expanded to a variety of disciplines in UIHC from cardiac surgeries to transplants. These tools are specialized in soft-tissue procedures. Hospital staff use robotics in roughly 100 cases every month.
In a social media post, the UIHC said “Our Perioperative Robotics Program recently celebrated its 10,000th soft-tissue surgery using robotics and is performing approximately 100 cases per month, thanks to the collaborative work of the surgical specialties and expanded training programs for nurses and residents.” UIHC Medical Director of Robotic Surgery, Dr. David Bender, MD, says “Robotic procedures are done across all surgical disciplines for patients in need of surgery—many of whom have cancer. Urology, gynecologic oncology, thoracic oncology, general surgery and otolaryngology are among the specialties using this technology every day.
Robotics Nurse, Julie Delancey, RN, and nurse Megan Mulholland, RN, BSN prepare an Operating room and robot for a Robotic Prostatectomy at UIHC on Monday, November 7, 2022. (UIHC Facebook photo)
The program has been a 20-year work-in progress, with more than 40 surgeons having learned how to operate these machines. UIHC started rolling in robotic procedures over the last several years, but now the hospital says they’re used every day.
UIHC Robotics surgical specialists, nurses & residents. (UIHC Facebook photo)
AMES, Iowa (KCCI) -The FBI is now joining in the investigation into a missing five-year-old girl in Iowa. KCCI reports that Avery Doherty of Ames has been missing since October. Police believe her mother, Esther Bender, took her. She does not have custody of her daughter. Avery is 4′5″ and weighs 45 lbs. She has blonde hair and blue eyes.
Anyone with information is asked to call police.
ACGC 66, East Union 18
ACGC 60, Van Meter 22
Van Meter 41, East Union 33
Nodaway Valley 48, Greene County 31
Nodaway Valley 44, Martensdale St-Marys 33
Red Oak 42, Clarinda 36
Red Oak 57, St. Albert 12
Southwest Valley 48, Clarinda 25
Southwest Valley 47, Red Oak 33
Southwest Valley 60, St. Albert 3
Clarinda 48, St. Albert 24
Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln 50, AHSTW 27
Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln 63, Southwest Iowa 18
AHSTW 39, Southwest Iowa 18
Carroll 75, Audubon 3
Carroll 57, Kuemper Catholic 24
Coon Rapids-Bayard 42, Audubon 30
Kuemper Catholic 42, Coon Rapids-Bayard 24
Hawkeye Ten Conference:
Glenwood 68, Atlantic 58
Harlan 42 Lewis Central, 37
Western Iowa Conference:
Logan-Magnolia 63, West Monona 55 (NC)
Corner Conference:
East Mills 69, Essex 36
Fremont-Mills 51, Griswold 42
West Central Conference:
#3 Earlham 49, Woodward Granger 43
Van Meter 54, Ogden 45
#10 Lynnville-Sully 69 Pleasantville, 59 (NC)
(Radio Iowa) – Iowans who’ve resolved to lose weight in the new year might need a little help in reaching their goals. Rebecca Cripe, a registered dietician and nutritionist with Gundersen Health System, says it’s not an easy task to change our eating habits and consulting with a professional will increase the chances for success. “We are trained to look at health from a medical standpoint and how food, exercise, hydration and proper self care fit into that,” Cripe says. “We’re always going to do an assessment to see what’s inconsistent, is there too much of one thing, not enough another thing, and what that individual’s goals are and how we can start creating some balance with that.”
If you want to make the change and drop some pounds, Cripe says don’t wait until March, find a registered dietician now, as she says their primary goals are education and problem solving. “I might have a patient at the end of an initial appointment that will say, ‘Gosh, there’s a lot that I want to work on,’ and I’ll say, ‘Absolutely, but we’re going to have time to do that,'” Cripe says. “The average time to make a good lifestyle change is at least six months, so we’re going to take small steps. We might meet every two to three weeks, maybe four weeks, and implement small goals that are realistic.”
Especially with the new year, there’s a lot of messaging with fad diets that there’s a problem with the individual if weight loss goals aren’t met, and that’s not right, according to Cripe. She says we need to go into the process with realistic expectations. “Managing health, weight specifically, is multi-factorial. That means there’s many factors that go into that,” Cripe says. “It’s somebody’s genetics, it’s somebody’s other health issues, it’s our environment, it’s a lack of support, it’s the readiness to change. There’s so many little areas, so seek the help to individually see what’s going to fit for you and seek that support to help.”
Hawkeye Ten Conference:
Glenwood 51 Atlantic, 46
#10 Lewis Central 45 #6 Harlan Community, 30
Western Iowa Conference:
West Monona 59, Logan-Magnolia 46 (NC)
Corner Conference:
East Mills 46, Essex 32
Fremont-Mills 53, Griswold 21
Pride of Iowa Conference:
Lenox 49, Southwest Valley 37
East Atchison 67 Bedford, 52 (NC)
West Central Conference:
Woodward Granger 48, #15 Earlham 40
Van Meter 52, Ogden 22
#11 Lynnville-Sully 52 Pleasantville, 22 (NC)
RITA SAUNDERS, 96, of Manning, died Monday, Jan. 1, 2024, at Accura HealthCare in Carroll. Funeral services for RITA SAUNDERS will be held 10:30-a.m. Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024, at Zion Lutheran Church in Manning. Ohde Funeral Home in Manning has the arrangements.
Friends may call at Zion Lutheran Church in Manning, on Thursday, from 9:30-a.m. until the time of service.
Burial is in the Manning Cemetery.
RITA SAUNDERS is survived by:
Her daughter – Rebecca (Mark) Kapfer, of Bettendorf.
Her son – Randy Saunders, of Carroll.
6 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
GARY MADSEN, 66, of Kimballton, died Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023, at Atlantic Specialty Care, in Atlantic (IA). A Memorial visitation for GARY MADSEN will be held on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024, from 11-a.m. until 1-p.m., at the Ohde Funeral Home, in Kimballton.
GARY MADSEN is survived by:
His brother – Howard (and wife Vernice) Madsen, of Hilton Head, SC.
His sister – Carol Jensen, of Yorkville, IL.
His brothers – Alan (and wife Lori) Madsen, of Spirit Lake, and Warren (and wife Marie) Madsen, of Newton
and other relatives.
(Radio Iowa) – Iowa is facing a shortage of attorneys, and prosecutors in one northwest Iowa county are working harder to keep up. Woodbury County Attorney James Loomis says his office needs five more attorneys to be at the full capacity of 18, so he and his staff are working longer hours to cover an increasing criminal caseload. “So, it’s lent itself to many challenges,” Loomis says. “My day usually starts at six o’clock in the morning, and it usually ends around midnight, and then, I get up the next day and do it all over again.” The county recently approved higher salaries to try to entice people to apply.
The president of the Iowa State Bar Association, Ian Russell, says there is a need for lawyers in all areas of the profession, especially in smaller communities and for indigent defense work. “If there was a single reason why,” Russell says, “I would address that reason and do my best to fix it.” Russell says it’s a combination of factors that are keeping some from pursuing a career in law. “Some of it’s just the aging population, some of it’s people not interested in law,” Russell says. “Some if it’s people not interested in being in Iowa.”
From 2014 to 2022, the number of licensed lawyers who live and practice in the state has fallen by more than 260, or about 3.5%.
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