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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “With the Secretary, the first Secretary of HHS under President George W. Bush, I came to the Washington Hospital Center…”

On the recordApril 2, 2009
With the Secretary, the first Secretary of HHS under President George W. Bush, I came to the Washington Hospital Center, sat with your personnel, and had a very impressive briefing of what ER One would look like and how it would operate.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton recalls a briefing about the ER One facility's design and operation.

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