Clark Kauffman for Iowa Capital Dispatch
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The state of Iowa has agreed to temporarily waive training requirements for nurse aides who deliver much of the hands-on care in nursing homes.
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The five Iowa nursing homes with current, active outbreaks are all based in counties with lower-than-average vaccine acceptance rates. Four of the five homes are in counties that backed President Trump in the 2020 election.
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A long-simmering dispute over a proposed new regional airport in Iowa could help define the powers of locally elected officials
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More than 50 Iowa nursing homes have experienced a COVID-19 outbreak since the vaccine roll-out in December, and the home with the highest number of outbreaks is run by the state itself.
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Many Health Care Workers Don’t Trust Vaccine, Nationally And In Iowa
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The Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals and the City of Des Moines are alleging in court that the Sutton Senior Home and its owner, Anne Porter of Ankeny, are running an illegal, unlicensed care facility out of the single-family house on Des Moines’ southwest side.
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Five of the Iowa nursing homes deemed by the government to be among the worst in the nation have met those criteria for at least two years, and one has qualified for four years, according to federal records.
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Reynolds’ claim that Iowa kept “the processing plants open,” ignores a number of closures reported by the plants themselves.
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Iowa’s cities have scored a decisive victory in a long-running legal battle between urban and rural interests over the delivery of water to undeveloped areas of the state.
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In fiscal year 2019, Iowa Workforce Development said it had identified $5,362,332 in unemployment overpayments that could be attributed to fraud. In FY 2020, which ended four months into the pandemic, that number increased to $5,732,627.