UPDATED at 4:45 p.m. with comments from Mercy CEO Tim Charles CEDAR RAPIDS – How many parking lots are enough? Members of the Cedar Rapids Historic Preservation Commission are asking that question of Mercy Medical Center. The hospital has taken out a demolition permit for a home at 817 Seventh St. SE and also...
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CEDAR RAPIDS – Physicians’ Clinic of Iowa could more than fill its new medical mall, even before groundbreaking begins. Mike Sundall, CEO of the physicians group, said PCI has taken nearly 20 inquiries from chiropractors, pharmacies and other businesses that would like a spot in the forthcoming mall at 10th Street and Second Avenue...
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The Ellinor and Roman Apartments in southeast Cedar Rapids were demolished this week to clear land for Physician’s Clinic of Iowa’s forthcoming medical mall. See photos posted here.
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Cedar Rapids physician, Dr. David M. Lawrence, has announced he will be specializing exclusively in peripheral vascular and endovascular surgery as of January 2011, making him the only vascular surgeon of this kind serving patients in the Cedar Rapids area. As a board certified vascular surgeon with a particular focus in endovascular aneurysm surgery...
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Eastern Iowa cancer patients might think competition is ramping up to woo their business, but hospital leaders say that’s not the case. “We don’t see it as a lucrative thing,” said Ted Townsend, CEO of St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids. “We see (cancer) as a growing thing.” The ongoing rivalry between St. Luke’s...
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CEDAR RAPIDS – Boundaries for the proposed Cedar Rapids medical district are expanding. The district, which stretches from St. Luke’s Hospital to Mercy Medical Center, will add 38 parcels on the east side of First Avenue between 12th and 13th streets, to the alley between Second and Third avenues SE. First Avenue properties run...
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 A former National Teacher of the Year is the new Environmental and Public Health Ambassador for the State Hygienic Laboratory, the lab announced today. Hector Ibarra, a nationally recognized educator and former science teacher at West Branch Middle School, will collaborate with the Hygienic Laboratory as its ambassador to promote the study of science...
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CEDAR RAPIDS – Beginning Tues., Nov. 16, Mercy Medical Center will display a collection of 24 stained glass windows which originally hung in the hospital’s former chapel.  The exhibit is called A Light Within.  The stained glass windows have been restored to their original state as part of a yearlong celebration of the life of...
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CEDAR RAPIDS – Despite attempts to relocate two historic apartment buildings, the structures will be razed this month to make way for Physicians’ Clinic of Iowa’s new medical mall. The 1930-built Roman Apartments, 1115 Second Ave. SE, and the Ellinor, a dusty-blue 12-plex built in 1910 at 1040 Third Ave. SE, were both eligible...
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Temporary parking changes take effect this week on Mercy campus CEDAR RAPIDS –Beginning Wed., Nov. 17, Mercy Medical Center will begin preliminary site preparation for its new destination cancer center at the corner of 10th St. and 5th Ave. SE.  Site preparation will include the encasement of sewer lines, placement of temporary construction fences...
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