Experience & Care

The experience you can count on - in your time of need

For more than one hundred years, we have been committed to providing high-quality, compassionate medical care. The physicians, nurses and staff of Iowa Methodist Medical Center, Iowa Lutheran Hospital, Blank Children's Hospital, Methodist West Hospital, John Stoddard Cancer Center and our more than 45 physician clinics throughout central Iowa are dedicated to providing quality healthcare and health education.

Care that Exceeds Expectations

At Iowa Health - Des Moines we focus on the care our patients receive. With our focus on care, Iowa Health - Des Moines has developed unique services that provide dedicated care to our patients:

Care Coordinators

At John Stoddard Cancer Center, we provide Care Coordinators who help patients through their entire healing process - providing education, support, encouragement, facilitating multidisciplinary care, supporting the patient throughout the entire healing process, and much more. John Stoddard Cancer Center is the only hospital to offer such a service to patients.

How Patients Respond

Patients have enjoyed the dedicated care they receive from their Care Coordinators. The Care Coordinators help relieve stress by facilitating care between physicians, nurses, dietitians, and counselors. Patients have expressed gratitude for providing a service that simply around to focus on their care.

Child Life Specialists

At Blank Children's Hospital, we provide a Child Life service for patients. The service provides patients and their families with a Child Life Specialist who will be by the patient's and family's side to help them understand medical options, talk through emotions, keep the patient's life as normal as possible, ease nerves and calm patients down for procedures, and so much more.