{"id":16086,"date":"2025-12-01T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16086"},"modified":"2025-11-30T22:56:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T04:56:36","slug":"traer-losing-its-doctors-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/12\/traer-losing-its-doctors-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Traer losing its doctor&#8217;s office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16102\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/traerclinic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/traerclinic.jpg 675w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/traerclinic-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>November 11, 2025:<\/strong> MercyOne Traer Family Medicine opened as the North Tama Medical Clinic in 1976.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A decade after losing the town&#8217;s longtime dentist, and a few years removed from losing the town&#8217;s once-a-week optometrist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northtamatelegraph.com\/news\/local-news\/2025\/11\/28\/mercyone-traer-family-medicine-to-shutter-dec-10\/\">the town of Traer is losing its doctor&#8217;s office<\/a>. The final day will be Dec. 9. The office was down to one advanced registered nurse practitioner.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement from the MercyOne system, which acquired Covenant Medical Center in Waterloo in 2016 and rebranded it and its satellite locations in 2019, came as a shock to all involved. The clinic was built in 1975-76, and served the people&#8217;s needs well. The pharmacy across the street is sure to take a huge hit from people not being able to walk over and get their prescriptions.<\/p>\n<p>The sudden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legacy.com\/us\/obituaries\/wcfcourier\/name\/teresa-lowe-obituary?id=52630963\">death of Dr. Teresa Lowe in her sleep in 2023<\/a> left a hole in the community, one that could not be stitched up by a nurse practitioner, doctor, or skilled surgeon.<\/p>\n<p>The nearest MercyOne-affiliated location to Traer is in Reinbeck. There are only two doctor&#8217;s offices left in Tama County: a UnityPoint clinic in Toledo and a family medicine practice in Dysart that opened after MercyOne shut its clinic there earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 11, 2025: MercyOne Traer Family Medicine opened as the North Tama Medical Clinic in 1976. A decade after losing the town&#8217;s longtime dentist, and a few years removed from losing the town&#8217;s once-a-week optometrist, the town of Traer is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/12\/traer-losing-its-doctors-office\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16103,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16086\/revisions\/16103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}