Iowa officials launched the state's new behavioral health system this week. It is a significant overhaul of the previous system and is aimed at better connecting Iowans with mental health and ...

WATERLOO, Iowa — MercyOne Oelwein Medical Center has launched the Senior Life Solutions program to support older adults ...

Advocates of the change hope it will improve access to services and better coordination of care, by combining Iowa's 32 disparate mental health and substance use regions into seven unified behavioral ...

Iowa will take steps to ensure Medicaid-eligible children with mental illness diagnoses receive the mental and behavioral health care services they need as part of a recently announced settlement ...

The Southwest Iowa Mental Health and Disability Services Region’s Mental Health Crisis Response Team has begun using telehealth technology to shorten their response time, according to The Daily ...

DES MOINES — Iowa’s health agency pledged to ensure the delivery of home and community-based services to the state’s most vulnerable children with mental and behavioral health care needs under the ...

Emily Blomme (center), chief executive officer of Foundation 2 Crisis Services in Cedar Rapids, smiles May 15 as she stands next to Gov. Kim Reynolds as Kelly Garcia (right), director of the Iowa ...

Mercy Medical Center wants to build a $31 million psychiatric hospital in the Des Moines area — a major addition to a mental-health system routinely crammed with people in crisis. The new hospital ...

A proposed Iowa psychiatric hospital is closer to fruition after state regulators signed off on the project, reports The Des Moines Register. Here are five things to know. 1. The project, approved ...

More Iowans are surviving cancer due to advancements in treatments and screenings, but up to a third of survivors experience ...

SPENCER, Iowa — This town's hospital is a holdout on behalf of people going through mental health crises. The facility's leaders have pledged not to shutter their inpatient psychiatric unit, as dozens ...