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Chris Noel

70:28 - 70:52

“if on the books it looks like we have an active healthcare center that's serving us, yeah, yeah, it's not, not an accurate picture, right?”
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Chris Noel
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So which is the entire point of the grant, which is it's, it's to increase access to care for rural disadvantaged communities, which we, you know, thank you for bringing that up. It's timely with the other funding opportunities that are available to provide access to it. But if on the books it looks like we have an active healthcare center that's serving us, yeah, yeah, it's not, not an accurate picture, right? So Yeah, yeah, you bet. And one thing we were, we've known about this, this is an action item for a few months and we're waiting until we have this new, our healthcare rural health program coordinator.

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