Mr. Haws oversees the operational, strategic and financial performance of University of Iowa Health Care, which operates three medical center campuses and more than 60 facilities across 33 Iowa communities. The enterprise is Iowa’s largest hospital, as well as the state’s only tertiary and quaternary medical center. Since joining in November 2023, he has guided an expansion of the academic medical center’s clinical enterprise, including a first year of operation for its new 470,000-square-foot orthopedics campus in North Liberty, Iowa, which saw more than 142,300 outpatient visits and 8,000 operating room cases between April 2025 and March 2026. He also led the acquisition and integration of Mission Cancer + Blood, a network of 20 outreach clinics, which opened a new clinic and outpatient pharmacy in downtown Des Moines, Iowa in December 2025. In March 2026, UI Health Care opened an updated neonatal intensive care unit at UI Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital, and in April 2026 it completed a 30,000-square-foot renovation and expansion of its OB-GYN inpatient services. Mr. Haws has also championed rural health access, including hosting roundtable discussions with critical access hospitals and implementing Epic Community Connect in more than 40 Iowa communities. Under his leadership, UI Health Care’s university campus has been the top-ranked hospital in Iowa for more than three decades consecutively and was named the No. 1 “most humanizing” healthcare brand in the U.S. in Monigle’s “Humanizing Brand Experience” report in 2024, 2025 and 2026.
