Affiliate: Planned Parenthood North Central States
covers Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota
Locations: 2. Covered here: 2 (plus one after it was closed)
Iowa doesn’t do state inspections of this type of facility.
Patients who feel a need to file a complaint:
Iowa Health Facilities Division – Complaints
Closed Facility: Dubuque
Article from the Telegraph Herald in Dubuque:
Planned Parenthood leaves records in Dubuque; info of 2,500 potentially exposed
by Jeff Montgomery, July 6, 2016
Excerpt:
About 2,500 patients of Planned Parenthood of the Heartland’s now-closed Dubuque center recently were notified that their health records might have been among those left behind when the facility closed in April.
Public Relations Manager Rachel Lopez said hard copies of patient information were inadvertently left at the building at 3365 Hillcrest Road and that they might have been accessed by unauthorized parties following the center’s closure and ensuing building sale. . .
The documents were found by the building’s new owner May 6. Lopez said Planned Parenthood sent letters to all affected patients Friday, July 1 — nearly two months after the discovery . . .
Executive Director Kris Nauman said the documents were discovered during a May 6 final walk-through at the facility. Clarity Clinic closed on the building purchase later that day.
The medical information was located in a closet in “copy paper boxes” that were not sealed, she said.
Article from the Des Moines Register:
Patient records left at closed Dubuque Planned Parenthood center
by the Associated Press, July 6, 2016
North Central Affiliate
Article in The New York Times
Botched Care and Tired Staff: Planned Parenthood in Crisis
by Katie Benner, February 15, 2025
Excerpt:
For months last year at the North Central States affiliate . . . an understaffed nursing department did not upload sexually transmitted infection test results into charts, and patients wrongly believed that their results were negative when they did not hear back.
Article from the Iowa Capital Dispatch:
Planned Parenthood workers in five states announce intent to unionize
by Max Nesterak, May 26, 2022
Unknown Location
Lathrop
IA Appeals Court Decision – Lathrop
Excerpts:
Ritchie Lee Lathrop appeals from his conviction and sentence for third-degree sexual abuse. [Conviction] AFFIRMED . . .
Lathrop was . . . twenty-seven years old when he met fifteen-year-old C.W. in March 2005 . . .
On March 25, 2005, C.W. visited Planned Parenthood. After she obtained birth control pills, she and Lathrop began having sex “at least every other weekend, if not more.”
Des Moines
Susan Knapp
IA Iowa City Incident Report- Medical Assist 03.24.2015
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Hambrick
Court Document:
IA Des Moines Hambrick Complaint 05.13.09
Excerpt:
40. On February 12, 2008, the Plaintiff filed a Complaint with the Iowa Civil Rights Commission and the Equal Opportunity Commission alleging discrimination based on race discrimination in the areas of failure to promote, equal pay and being treated differently . . .
43. On April 14, 2008, the Plaintiff filed a second Complaint with the Iowa Civil Rights Commission and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging discrimination based on retaliation and that she was disciplined, harassed and treated differently for filing her initial Complaint on February 12, 2008 with the Iowa Civil Rights Commission . . .
57. Plaintiff was wrongfully terminated by the Defendants on October 8, 2008.
58. October 23, 2008, the Plaintiff filed her third Complaint with the Iowa Civil Rights Commission and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging discrimination and wages promotion.
60. On March 5, 2009, Plaintiff received a right to sue letter from the Iowa Civil Rights Commission and on March 19, 2009 from the EEOC relating to her complaint filed on April 14, 2008, based on discriminatory discipline, harassment and retaliation discrimination based on discriminatory discipline, failure to provide reasonable accommodation, discriminatory discharge, discriminatory retaliation, discrimination based on a physical disability and discrimination based on a mental disability.
Document:
Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Civil Rights
Health Information Privacy Complaint:
Excerpt:
I went into Planned Parenthood around 2 weeks ago and was diagnosed with an STD. Planned Parenthood has my current address.
A few days ago the woman I lived with over 3 months ago texted me stating there was a note taped to her apartment door from Planned Parenthood stating my test results. For anyone to see.
I don’t understand, first of all, why they would send my results to an address I never even gave them and not to the current address I did give them. And also why my VERY personal information is there for anyone to see, including my old landlord and anyone else who decided to walk by her apartment that day. I’m going through major emotional turmoil over this as it is, this just adds to it.
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