The Iowa Hospital Education and Research Foundation (IHERF) is a subsidiary of the Iowa Hospital Association (IHA). IHERF principally provides two programs in support of IHA member hospitals and health systems: The Health Care Careers Scholarship program began in 2005. The goal of this program is to fill health care clinical positions that currently have a significant number of openings across Iowa and to recruit students with the opportunity to obtain significant scholarships to help cover the costs of health care education. Support Iowans and support Iowa hospitals! The Hospital Employee Disaster Relief program assists employees that are permanently or temporarily displaced from their homes due to natural disasters. Iowa experiences severe weather and flooding and IHERF support is provided to member hospitals for their support of their affected employees.
Contributions are welcome and greatly appreciated to support these two programs and are tax deductible (IHERF is a non-profit 501c(3) organization—please consult your tax consultant with questions).