Specialty Care Services
UI Health Care is Iowa’s only comprehensive, academic medical center, providing innovative care, excellent service, and exceptional outcomes. Should you need specialty care, it’s good to know that UI Hospitals and Clinics has more than 250 specialty and subspecialty clinics, including such nationally recognized departments as ophthalmology, otolaryngology, and orthopaedics.
UI Children’s Hospital is the state’s only comprehensive children’s hospital and provides a full spectrum of care, from wellness and prevention to care of traumatic injury, life-threatening and chronic illnesses, and developmental disabilities for children from birth to young adulthood. We’re recognized as one of the best children’s hospitals in the United States, and your family has access to an array of specialists and sub-specialists not found elsewhere in Iowa.
UI Heart and Vascular Center offers a comprehensive range of specialists who work together to provide a patient-centered approach to heart and vascular care. We offer advanced options, such as minimally invasive surgery, transradial catheterization, as well as coordinated care that addresses every heart issue, including diabetes and stroke risk. For our patient's convenience, we are now offering evening hours on Mondays and Wednesdays. We also have a heart risk assessment, vascular screening and heart disease prevention program. Visit uihealthcare.com/heartcare to learn more.
Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center's more than 1,100 professionals, including more than 300 physicians and researchers, are dedicated to beating cancer. Through a multidisciplinary team approach, Holden specialists offer the most advanced treatments, innovative solutions, and latest clinical trials. Holden also offers the UI Cancer Information Service. This free service will address any question you may have about cancer. E-mail them at cancer-information@uiowa.edu or call toll free 800-237-1225
UI Neurosciences brings together teams of world-class neurologists, neurosurgeons, and neurological sub-specialists representing virtually all areas of expertise in the neurosciences. They collaborate to explore every known solution for neurological problems such as stroke, brain tumor, epilepsy, and Parkinson’s disease—and have discovered treatments for these problems.
UI Organ Transplant Center is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary transplant center providing corneal transplants, adult and pediatric blood and marrow transplants, as well as adult pancreas, and adult and pediatric kidney, liver, heart, and lung transplants as part of our state-of-the-art center.
Digestive Disease Center: Screening colonoscopy is a vital step to preventing colorectal cancer, which impacts hundreds of Iowans every year. This past year, digestive disease faculty and staff have made improvements so that people 50 and older, who should have the screening, can have it done in a timely and convenient manner.