News Library - 2024 Archive - Page 4

Boone County Hospital (BCH) is honored to announce our Wound and Hyperbaric Center (W&HC) is a recipient of RestorixHealth’s highest achievement, the Wound Center of Excellence Award.  Recipients of this prestigious award meet or exceed national wound care quality benchmarks over a set period of time.  The Wound Center of...

Both the Flu and COVID vaccines provide the best protection against illness this winter and spring.  Schedule your flu vaccine with your doctor’s office and a COVID vaccine with your local Pharmacy.  If you are Medicare age and homebound, Boone County Public Health will come to you with the vaccine. ...

The first baby born in 2024 in the Family Birth Center at Boone County Hospital (BCH) was baby Ember Azaela who was born on January 2, 2024, at 3:07 p.m.  She weighed 6 pounds, 12.5 ounces and was 17.75 inches long.  Proud parents are Victoria Gordon and Cannion Bill.  The...

The Family Birth Center (FBC) at Boone County Hospital joined the Iowa Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (IMQCC) in 2021. This collaborative started its work in Iowa hospitals with an initiative to decrease nulliparous, term, singleton, and vertex cesarean section rates, then switched the focus to decreasing postpartum hemorrhage rates, and...