Planned Parenthood of the Heartland's Sioux City clinic, 4409 Stone Ave., closed June 30, 2017. The clinic served more than 2,300 patients in 2016.
SIOUX CITY -- Planned Parenthood North Central States is bringing back limited in-person services to Sioux City, beginning Wednesday.
Planned Parenthood North Central States said in a statement released late Monday that its Sioux City health center, 4409 Stone Ave., will offer STI testing and family planning services, including birth control, IUD consultation, Depo shots and more. Medication abortion care will also be available, according to the statement.
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland's Sioux City clinic shuttered its doors on June 30, 2017, after Iowa's Republican-controlled legislature approved $3 million in Medicaid funding cuts, which then-Gov. Terry Branstad signed into law before leaving office. The clinic served more than 2,300 patients in 2016.
The closure of that clinic, as well as Planned Parenthood of the Heartland clinics in Burlington, Keokuk and Bettendorf, Iowa, came at a time when sexually transmitted diseases were surging in the state.
"Sexual and reproductive health care needs don't stop during a pandemic and Iowans in the Sioux City area need these services, especially now. New data shows sexually transmitted infections are skyrocketing in the county as the availability of testing and treatment has gone down," Erin Davison-Rippey, Iowa State Executive Director for Planned Parenthood North Central States, said in the statement.
To limit the spread of COVID-19, the statement said patients have access to telehealth services, which launched at the beginning of the pandemic.
Planned Parenthood health centers are taking all necessary measures to protect patients and physicians when in-person care is necessary, according to the statement. Health centers have a universal in-clinic masking policy, require social distancing and limit in-person contact to only when necessary.
Appointments can be made by calling 877-811-7526.
PHOTOS: Sioux City hospitals past and present
Samaritan Hospital
Sioux City's first hospital, Samaritan Hospital, opened in 1884.
Hospital at 28th and Jennings streets
The hospital at 28th and Jennings streets was opened by the Sisters of Mercy in 1890.
St. Joseph Hospital
The first section of St. Joseph Mercy hospital at 21st and Court streets, erected in the fall of 1890 and purchased by the hospital after previous quarters at 28th and Jennings streets proved to be inadequate.
St. Joseph's
St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital was founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1890. The "Mercy" name would later be conferred to one of Sioux City's present-day hospitals, Mercy Medical Center.
St. John's Hospital
St. John's Hospital was founded in 1908 by Dr. William Jepson, who founded Sioux City's Samaritan Hospital more than 20 years earlier.
St. Vincent Hospital
In the early 1970s, St. Joseph and St. Vincent, a hospital operated by the Benedictine Sisters at 6th and Jennings streets in Sioux City, joined forces to begin the city's first hospital-based ambulance service. Groundbreaking ceremonies were held in 1979 for a new $28 million hospital adjacent to St. Vincent's, the present site of Mercy Medical Center.
Methodist hospital
Methodist and Lutheran hospitals consolidated and formed St. Luke's Hospital in 1966.
Lutheran hospital
Lutheran hospital in Sioux City merged with St. Luke's.
St. Joseph demolition, 1968
Crews from J. Myron Olson begin razing the south portion of the original St. Joseph Mercy Hospital building at 21st Street and Ingleside Avenue.
Health Mercy Air Care
Mercy Air Care is shown in 2010 at its Sioux City helipad. The medical helicopter is based at what was then Mercy Medical Center-Sioux City, now MercyOne Siouxland Medical Center.
Crane moves MRI
Crews position a new MRI machine in the 2800 block of Pierce Street outside St. Luke's Regional Medical Center in 2012.
UnityPoint Health-St. Luke's
UnityPoint Health-St. Luke's hospital came into existence in 1966, with the merger of Sioux City's Lutheran and Methodist hospitals.
Mercy Medical Center - Sioux City
The exterior of Mercy Medical Center--Sioux City is shown.
Dolly Butz
City Government & Features Reporter
Butz, a Drake University graduate, has been at the Journal since 2005, covering a variety of beats, including public safety, health care and city government. She has won state and national awards, primarily for coverage of addiction and mental health.
