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New Foundation has Roots in Cedar Valley Hospitals

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare
Waterloo, IA

Established to assist organizations in the Cedar Valley to improve the health and wellbeing of their citizens, the Otto Schoitz Foundation was named after Waterloo philanthropist and industrialist Otto Schoitz, who donated $500,000 in honor of his late wife, Charlotte, as part of a community wide-effort to raise money to build a new hospital. That…read more

To Get Vaccines Where They are Needed, Waterloo Pediatrician Takes the Wheel

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare
Waterloo, IA

Childhood vaccination rates are less than desirable in Black Hawk County and in the state of Iowa as a whole. In Waterloo, Covenant Clinic pediatrician Dr. Daniel Wright identified the need and found a solution to increase vaccination rates in the area, and more importantly, wants to prevent cancer from occurring. Dr. Wright organized a…read more