Des Moines Health News
Iowa · Population 212,086 (2025 estimate) · 0 stories
Des Moines, Iowa, is a mid-size metro with an estimated population of 212,086 (US Census Bureau, 2025). Its healthcare landscape spans academic medical centres and community hospitals, physician groups and ambulatory networks, federally qualified health centres, payers and Medicare Advantage plans, along with the clinicians and researchers serving the city and its surrounding counties.
Zocto's Des Moines desk tracks the stories that shape care locally: hospital expansions, Joint Commission and CMS quality actions, FDA approvals reaching local health systems, insurance coverage and pricing, public health advisories from city and Iowa health departments, medical education and workforce news, and the providers raising the standard of care.