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HealthLeaders Media Community and Rural Hospital Weekly - July 22, 2009

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Louisiana Officials Tell Their Stories to Obama Cabinet Cheryl Clark, Editor, Community Hospitals When Hurricane Gustav blew through Louisiana last August, Mary Ellen Pratt got to say what several other health facility CEOs in the region couldn't. The new generator serving the new St. James Parish Hospital didn't stop working. Pratt got the rare opportunity to tell that success story and several others this week to five top Obama Administration officials who conducted what many said was the first rural health tour of its kind. [Read More]
		July 22, 2009

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