Iowa City Veterans Affairs Health Care System 

• The Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center is in close proximity to the UI medical campus, which facilitates contiguous care at UI Health Care to serve each patients’ individual needs. 
• A partnership with the Iowa City Veterans Affairs (VA) Health System has seen multiple areas of growth over the last few years with gynecologic surgical services available to veterans within the VA. 
• Clinical assistant professor Kelly Ferroni, MD is currently seeing patients and performing procedures in an outpatient setting once per week and has two to three O.R. blocks per month. She also serves as an advisor to the VA’s women’s health services division. Care for minor gynecology cases is currently offered but will expand to offer major surgeries including both vaginal and laparoscopic hysterectomies within the next year. Not only does this serve veterans, but it expands O.R. access to our department’s residents, as well. The department also offers gender-affirming care to transgender veterans in the community.
   

Planned Parenthood and Emma Goldman Clinic 

• The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology maintains a collaborative partnership with the nonprofit Emma Goldman Clinic in Iowa City, a reproductive health care clinic that provides a myriad of care and services to the local community. The clinic works with departmental faculty and staff to provide educational, research, and procedural experiences to medical students and resident physicians as well as university social work and nursing practicum students, among others.
• Planned Parenthood is a nonprofit organization with affiliates in Iowa City and Des Moines. The department’s relationship with Planned Parenthood historically has been an additional site for resident and medical student education as well as research. UI Health Care providers currently do not provide care at Planned Parenthood locations. 
• Collaboration with the Emma Goldman Clinic is essential to the department, its residency program, and the broader community. The Emma Goldman Clinic allows residents to be trained in outpatient care procedures as required by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. The clinic serves as a primary site where UI physicians provide care serves, refer patients, train residents, and engage in research in family planning.
   

Iowa Correctional Institute for Women 

• The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology partners with the Iowa Correctional Institute for Women (ICIW) in Mitchellville, Iowa, to provide obstetrical and gynecological care for incarcerated patients. The goal of this service is to provide ethical and quality health care services to improve longitudinal health outcomes for the parent/infant dyad. 
• This innovative service is one of the first, if not the only, program of its kind in the United States. In addition, pregnant patients within the ICIW who are incarcerated for substance use disorder offenses will be offered medication-assisted treatment (MAT), if needed, and offered Maternal Substance Use Disorder Clinic visits when they are being seen at the OBGYN Clinic. Abbey Hardy-Fairbanks is MAT-waivered and provides this service to incarcerated pregnant patients and also councils on neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome for the infant, if needed.
   

International Health Service 

• Dr. Kimberly Kenne has been involved in global health programming since her undergraduate studies, under the mentorship of Dr. Brooks Jackson. Her most impactful work to date has been involvement in a urogynecology fellowship in collaboration with Hamlin Fistula Hospital Ethiopia and a research partnership at MU JHU in Kampala, Uganda with numerous associated scholarly publications. She views global health with an academic lens (tripartite mission): service, education, and research. She is currently involved in educational efforts at Princess Marina Hospital in Gaborone, Botswana in collaboration with Beth Isreal’s Botswana Global Health Program in OBGYN. She mentors trainees at all levels in this work and brings them on these international trips with funding from generous donors. 
• We have now established a 5-year program, with philanthropic support from Andy and Susie Code, for continued work in Gabarone. Among the surgical services they will offer include care of vesicovaginal and rectovaginal fistulas, pelvic organ prolapse, revision of obstetric injuries, and surgical management of fecal and urinary incontinence. They also will provide both outpatient clinical and inpatient surgical services, and they will hold didactic sessions with the faculty and residents, enhancing that group’s knowledge and skills.