UIHC eyeing $45M in upgrades, including $25 million at new North Liberty campus

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IOWA CITY — Two months after d elaying the timeline of its new $2 billion inpatient tower, citing federal health care-related funding cuts, University of Iowa Health Care next week will ask the Board of Regents to approve $45.5 million in facilities upgrades across its three inpatient hospital campuses.

Largest among the spending requests is a $19 million to $25 million ask to “build out all shell space projects at the UIHC North Liberty campus.”

The university’s new five-story, 469,060-square-foot orthopedics-centered hospital at the corner of Forevergreen Road and Highway 965 debuted in late April — realizing years of planning and overcoming a range of obstacles, including an initial st