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IOWA CITY — In light of health care-related budget cuts at the federal level expected to strip $9.5 billion from the State of Iowa over the next decade, University of Iowa Health Care on Thursday announced changes to its many building plans — including its more than $2 billion inpatient tower.

The Jacobson Tower — made possible, in part, by a $70 million donation from the Richard O. Jacobson Foundation — “continues on a new timeline,” UIHC officials said in a news release.

Officials didn’t offer new dates for work on what was supposed to be an 842,000-square-foot tower — planned to begin this year and finish by 2030. But UIHC is delaying indefinitely three projects billed as enabling the new

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