06/24/2009
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"I have been a firm advocate of making sure that we can continue this focus and certainly would encourage the support."
"We have identified where those gaps are, we can be working to try to address it."
"The difficulty to keep or to find a specialist assigned to Alaska to maintain the currency."
"I appreciate that. I also recognize that we can have real challenges when it comes to recruiting the healthcare professionals up into the region."