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Policy & Politics

Obama to Name Director of Health Centers Agency

February 23, 2009

Administration officials on Friday confirmed that President Obama will name a nurse from North Dakota, Mary Wakefield, to lead the Health Resources and Services Administration. Wakefield now directs the Center for Rural Health at the University of North Dakota. HRSA oversees the work of some 7,000 community clinics that care for low-income and uninsured people; it also runs the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, which helps 530,000 low-income people access care and treatment.

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Adapted from:
Associated Press
02.20.2009

  
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