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Broadlawns Foot Care - July 22, 2010
Did You Know? Broadlawns Medical Center Offers a comprehensive Foot and Ankle Clinic to assist with your foot care needs.  To schedule an appointment please call 282-2331. This is a Fact of Life! View Downloadable PDF ...

Did You Know? The Broadlawns Medical Center Family Medicine Residency program is graduating seven physicians from our program.  Five of the physicians are staying in Iowa to provide primary healthcare.  Historically, two-thirds of our Family Medicine Residency Program graduates stay...

Did You Know? Last year Broadlawns Medical Center provided over 30,132 emergency room visits.  We are excited to announce our new Emergency Department opened May 17.  The new expanded and modernized Emergency Department will allow Broadlawns to continue to provide much needed emergency...

Iowa Cares Program - May 5, 2010
Did You Know? Four years ago, the State of Iowa created the IowaCare program through a partnership with Broadlawns Medical Center and the University of Iowa.  This program provides health care services to adult Iowans between the ages of 19 and 64 who are at the 0-200 percent Federal Poverty...

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CIAHEC and BGM Schools Partner on Health Program DES MOINES, Iowa (July 8, 2010)  --  In a semester-long project with the Central Iowa Area Health Education Centers (AHEC), BGM high school students learned about careers in healthcare and the elementary students learned how to make...

Des Moines, June 17, 2010 – Lisa G. Soldat, MD, MS, FAAFP, has joined the medical staff at Broadlawns Medical Center. She is seeing patients in the Family Health Center. An alumna of Johnston High school, Soldat received her medical training at the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA....

Murdoch Named New Director of Broadlawns Amputation Prevention Center Des Moines, June 16, 2010 – Mica Murdoch, DPM has been named the new director of the Amputation Prevention Center at Broadlawns Medical Center. The specialty center opened at Broadlawns in 2007, and has successfully...

Des Moines, June 16, 2010 – Ben Olsen, DPM, has been named director of the newly formed Foot and Ankle Trauma Fellowship at Broadlawns Medical Center. "Broadlawns' Department of Foot and Ankle Surgery has always hada strong interest in the education and training of future lower...

Polk County Taxpayers Association

Over the past three years, Polk County's under-appreciated public hospital has been transformed into one of the finest public hospitals of its size and category in the nation.   A Cornerstone of this transformation lies in the committed leadership of Jody Jenner, president and CEO of...