Affiliate: Planned Parenthood North Central States
covers Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota

Locations: 6. Covered here: 3 (plus one 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

Planned Parenthood Nebraska

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

Sexual Abuse Planned Parenthood

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

Document:

Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Civil Rights

Health Information Privacy Complaint:

IA Des Moines HHS-OCR 2012

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.