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Two-time Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning, a consensus All-American quarterback at Ole Miss, heads a diverse list of eight former athletes and sports figures selected for induction into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in August of 2024.

The Class of ’24 was announced at a press conference Wednesday afternoon at the MSHOF Museum, which will begin undergoing a $4 million renovation immediately.

Other 2024 inductees, in alphabetical order, include: Walter “Red” Barber, Baseball Hall of Fame broadcaster; Madison-Ridgeland Academy basketball coach Richard Duease, who has coached the second most basketball victories of any high school basketball coach in the U.S.; Laurel fisherman Paul Elias, 1982 Bassmasters Classic champion, and winner of five other national pro tournaments; former Jackson State and NFL wide receiver Jimmy Smith, a five-time Pro Bowler and the Jacksonville Jaguars’ all-time leading receiver; Jackson native Savante Stringellow, a former world champion long jumper who prepped at Provine and was an All American at Ole Miss; tennis champion Becky Vest, another Jackson Provine product, who competed on the Virginia Slims Tour, at Wimbledon, and the U.S. and French Opens; and Florence’s Jimmy Webb, a Mississippi State All American defensive lineman and first-round NFL Draft choice who played seven years of pro football in San Francisco and San Diego.

Brief bios of each follow:

• Red Barber was born in Columbus, where he lived his first 10 years. His family left the state but his rich, Southern accent stayed with him throughout his Hall of Fame broadcasting career. He broke into Major League Baseball with the Cincinnati Reds and later famously broadcast the games of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees. He and Mel Allen were the first two broadcasters inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown.
• Richard Duease, born and raised Indianola, attended Mississippi State where he first majored in business, planning to eventually run his family’s two department stores in the Delta. Instead, he went into coaching. That was 48 years, 1,801 victories and 33 state championships ago. “I can’t think of a greater honor than being inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame,” Duease said Wednesday.
• Paul Elias said he was too small to play football, was “pretty good” at baseball but “was really, really good” at fishing while growing up in Laurel. “I praise the Lord every day for allowing me to make a good living doing what I love to do,” Elias, a Southern Miss graduate, said. He turned pro in 1979 and won the Bassmasters Classic in Montgomery in 1982. Twenty-six years later, he seta record that still stands for the largest four-da five-bass limit of 132 pounds, 8 ounces in a tournament at Lake Falcon in Texas.
• Eli Manning follows his father, Archie, into the MSHOF, just as he followed him to Ole Miss. During his time at Oxford, he set or tied 47 records to become the most honored offensive player in school history. He was the first player selected in the 2004 NFL Draft and played 16 years for the New York Giants. His jersey No. 10 has been retired by both Ole Miss and the Giants. In 2016, he was chosen winner of the NFL’s Walter Payton Man of the Year Award, named after another Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer. Manning will enter the MSHOF in his first year of eligibility for the honor.
• Jimmy Smith earned his nickname “Silk” at Callaway High School for how he made so many big plays so gracefully and with seemingly little effort. He then starred at Jackson State and began his professional career as a second round draft choice of the Dallas Cowboys. But he became one of the game’s most productive receivers with the Jacksonville Jaguars for whom he caught 862 passes, including 67 for touchdowns. He is in the Jaguars’ Ring of Honor but considers Wednesday’s announcement “my greatest honor, something I have wanted for a long, long time.”
• Savanté Stringfellow played basketball and ran track at Provine, where he caught the eye of MSHOF track coach Joe Walker, then the coach at Ole Miss. He claimed three NCAA Championships as a Rebel All American became a U.S Olympian and follows in a long line of so many remarkable Mississippi long jumpers, including Hall of Famers Ralph Boston, Larry Myricks, Brittney Reese and Willye B. White. “I don’t know what it is about Mississippi and the long jump, but I’m just glad to be a part of it,” said Stringfellow, whose son, Kennedy, is a promising freshman long jumper at Mississippi State.
• Becky Vest, another Jackson native and Provine grad, won five high school state tennis championships, two while still in junior high. She played collegiately at Trinity (Texas) University where she was a national champion. After college, she competed internationally as a professional and has become an acclaimed teacher. She follows her mother, Dorothy Vest, as the first mother/daughter combo in the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame.
• Jimmy Webb of Florence became one of the greatest defensive players in Mississippi State football history, a consensus All American in the early-to -mid 1970s. A first round draft choice, he also starred in the NFL with both the San Francisco 49ers and San Diego Chargers. At State, he studied veterinary medicine, preparing for his post-football career as a veterinarian and a cattle rancher. “I have been so blessed,” Webb said. “I appreciate this state so much and am so thankful for his honor. At my age, the honors don’t seem to come around that much any more.”

The Class of ’24 will be inducted the weekend Aug. 2-3 in Jackson. Tickets will go on sale in January.

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An “unexpected issue” is being blamed for the Mississippi Secretary of State’s website and several other state agency websites being down for several hours this week — just 12 days before the 2023 statewide election.

Basic voting info housed on the Secretary of State’s website like polling place locations, sample ballots and campaign finance reports were inaccessible for several hours between the evening of Oct. 25 through much of the morning on Oct. 26.

The Secretary of State’s office announced Thursday morning that “most” website services had been restored. As of about 11 a.m. on Thursday, most of the state’s websites appeared to be back online.

The Mississippi Information Technology Services agency, which manages the state’s website servers, issued a public statement Thursday around 12:30 p.m.

“Late in the afternoon on Wednesday, October 25, the state network which provides connectivity to many state agencies encountered an error that created an unexpected issue,” the statement said. “Since the initial event, the network has been intermittently unresponsive. Immediately, ITS engineers along with high level contract support began work to troubleshoot the issues. They have continued their work around the clock; however, the situation has yet to be fully resolved.”

Some state employees who manage state website domains received an email Thursday morning that said Tyler Technologies, a company the state contracts with to manage its servers, was aware of the outages.

The email, shared with Mississippi Today, said: “SERVICE INTERRUPTION: Please be advised, Tyler Mississippi is currently experiencing issues affecting connectivity to the following: MS.GOV hosted services including websites and .NET applications. All teams have been engaged to pinpoint and assist in resolving the underling (sic) issue.”

Earlier in the week, the state website managers had received notice that Tyler Mississippi would be installing updates for the websites from Oct. 25 8 p.m. until Oct. 26 at 12 a.m.

The state’s IT agency said in its Thursday statement that the problem was not related to cybersecurity or data integrity issues.

On Election Day in 2022, the Mississippi Secretary of State’s website was down for several hours because of a cyberattack. As many politicians have made claims of election irregularities in recent years, election agency websites across the country have proven susceptible to similar attacks.

“We want to be clear and (reassure) Mississippians our election system is secure and has not been compromised,” the Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office said of last year’s cyberattack.

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Three former Mississippi Department of Corrections staff members who pleaded guilty to hitting and kicking an inmate while the person lay on the ground and striking the individual with a pepper spray canister in 2019 will serve up to three years in federal prison, the Justice Department announced. 

Former corrections officers Jessica Hill and LaToya Richardson and case manager Nicole Moore, who were sentenced Wednesday, used excessive force against an incarcerated person identified as L.C. at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in July 2019. 

The staff members assaulted L.C. while the inmate lay in the fetal position and didn’t resist, according to court records. Hill hit L.C. several times with the canister and punched her in the head. Richardson kicked L.C. four times in the head and upper torso, and Moore kicked her once in the back of the head. Hill continued to hit L.C. until another prison staff member intervened, according to court records. 

“The defendants in this case ignored their sworn duty to protect inmates and chose violence instead,” U.S. Attorney Todd W. Gee for the Southern District of Mississippi said in a statement.  “We will continue to prosecute those who abuse their positions of authority and violate the civil rights of inmates.” 

Senior Judge Tom Lee sentenced Hill and Richardson to three years and one month in federal prison with two years of supervised release, according to a news release from the DOJ. Moore received two years in prison and two years of supervised release. All were ordered to pay a $1,500 fine.

The maximum prison sentence they faced was 10 years with three years supervised release and a fine up to $250,000 and mandatory special assessment of $100, according to court records. 

Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said the DOJ is committed to prosecuting prison officials who violate the law and their oaths and subject incarcerated people to cruel and unusual punishment – a violation of their 8th Amendment right. 

Special Agent in Charge Jermicha Fomby of the FBI Jackson Field Office said incarcerated people are guaranteed protection from harm by the correctional officers responsible for their care. Hill’s actions were a deliberate violation of trust and a disservice to people in prison and other correctional staff. 

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The Louisiana Catholic nonprofit primed to purchase the Gulf Coast’s Singing River Health System will not be moving forward with the deal.

Singing River and Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System announced they were terminating negotiations in a press release Wednesday night. The two companies claimed it was a joint decision.

“Both parties engaged in extensive negotiations in an effort to reach an agreement, but ultimately, consensus could not be achieved,” the release reads. 

It’s not clear what led to the breakdown in discussions.

The announcement is the latest development in a saga that’s been surprising from start to finish. 

The former Singing River CEO Tiffany Murdock announced the 700-bed health system was seeking a buyer last year, despite coming out of the pandemic in better financial shape than most Mississippi hospitals. 

Singing River has clinics and medical facilities across the Coast, including hospitals in Gulfport, Ocean Springs and Pascagoula.

Nearly half of the state’s rural hospitals are at risk of closure, according to one report, due to major financial issues. Singing River, on the other hand, grew its revenue in 2021. 

The system hasn’t been without challenges, though — Singing River’s Gulfport hospital had to suspend its labor and delivery services earlier this year because of staffing shortages. 

The health system was seeking a buyer as a preventative measure, preparing for future challenges, according to the former CEO. 

“We’re coming at it now at a place of strength,” Murdock told a community group in Hurley in August 2022. “And in five years, I can’t promise you the same thing.”

Jackson County’s Board of Supervisors chose the nonprofit as the health system’s preferred buyer in March after a “rigorous” bidding process. 

The Catholic health system, based in Baton Rouge, operates St. Dominic Memorial Hospital in Jackson and nine facilities throughout Louisiana. 

But for months, the sale has been quietly pending.

When Mississippi Today inquired about the sale in June, spokespeople said discussions about the sale were ongoing. However, earlier this week, when Mississippi Today reached out to a spokesperson for the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System requesting confirmation that the deal had fallen through, she did not respond.

The president and CEO of the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, Dr. Richard Vath, says in the press release that despite their decision, the Catholic nonprofit was impressed by the Jackson County Board of Supervisors’ and Singing River’s commitment to “delivering quality healthcare” to the Coast.

“At this unprecedented time of uncertainty in healthcare, we regret that both parties could not reach consensus,” he said. “We wish the very best for Jackson County and SRHS in the future.”

It appears the health system will move forward with its search for a buyer — Ken Taylor, president of the Board of Supervisors, said in the press release that the board is committed to “finding the ideal partner to fulfill [the hospital’s] long-term objectives.”

 “We remain resolute in our dedication to preserving SRHS’s exceptional legacy, which spans over eight decades,” Taylor said. 

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Oct. 26, 1911

Mahalia Jackson, the “Queen of Gospel,” was born in New Orleans. After moving to Chicago, she became one of the first singers to move gospel music from the church to the mainstream, attracting white audiences and selling millions. 

“I sing God’s music,” she explained, “because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope.” 

In 1950, she became the first gospel singer to perform at Carnegie Hall, and 11 years later, she sang at the inauguration ball for President John Kennedy. She became a voice for the civil rights movement. 

In 1956, she performed in Alabama during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, raising money for the movement. But when she returned to Ralph Abernathy’s home, it had been bombed. She continued to perform at events with Martin Luther King Jr., who said a voice like hers “comes not once in a century, but once in a millennium.” 

In 1963, she sang at the March on Washington. When King veered from his prepared text, she urged him to, “Tell them about the dream,” a reference to a speech he had given months earlier in Detroit. His oration became known as his “I Have a Dream” speech — one of the most famous speeches in U.S. history. 

The marches didn’t stop, and neither did Jackson, who saw her music as something that could help “break down some of the hate and fear that divide the white and black people in this country.” Her performance of “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” became King’s favorite. When he was assassinated in 1968, she sang the song at his funeral. 

When she died four years later of heart failure, Aretha Franklin sang the song at her funeral, which more than 50,000 attended in Chicago. 

In her life, Jackson became the first gospel music artist to win a Grammy Award, and after her death, she was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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Welcome to The Homestretch, a daily blog featuring the most comprehensive coverage of the 2023 Mississippi governor’s race. This page, curated by the Mississippi Today politics team, will feature the biggest storylines of the 2023 governor’s race at 7 a.m. every day between now and the Nov. 7 election.

Four summers ago, Bill Waller Jr. had Tate Reeves on the ropes.

Waller, the former Mississippi Supreme Court chief justice who challenged Reeves in the 2019 GOP primary, had forced the powerful lieutenant governor into a runoff after Reeves’ allies had spent months downplaying his primary challenger.

What began as a modest campaign for Waller swiftly picked up steam. He was earning notable support from suburban Republicans. Respected GOP party leaders spoke highly of him and several even endorsed him. In the run-up to the primary, it was clear that Waller was a force for Reeves to reckon with.

READ MORE: ‘I think he’s more electable than Tate’: Four past GOP chairmen endorsed Waller over Reeves

The reason for that was simple: a fresh, new-to-the-modern-GOP platform. Waller ran on three major issues that year that few previous Republicans had: raising the state’s lowest-in-the-nation teacher pay, improving the state’s crumbling roads and bridges, and expanding Medicaid to save sick Mississippians and struggling hospitals. And on those three issues, Reeves got absolutely blasted.

Teachers groups torched Reeves for his years of inaction on teacher pay. Roadbuilders admonished Reeves for not committing to improving the state’s crumbling infrastructure. Hospital leaders flocked to support Waller when Reeves famously dug his heels in on his refusal to allow Medicaid expansion.

We know the rest of the story. Reeves ultimately won the runoff by about 28,000 votes. But in the process, Waller defeated Reeves in 17 counties, including Reeves’ home county Rankin (Reeves lost by 20 percentage points in his own home precinct). So many Mississippi Republicans had rebuked Reeves’ positions on those three main issues.

So Reeves, after he won the general election later in 2019, responded.

In his first four years as governor, Reeves checked off two of those three major Waller platforms — though one should deeply scrutinize whether Reeves was truly responsible for either accomplishment.

In 2022, lawmakers passed the largest teacher pay raise in state history, which Reeves gladly signed into law and is now, interestingly, taking credit for. In 2023, lawmakers appropriated a heap of funds to the Mississippi Department of Transportation, which Reeves also signed. (Plus, the state is benefitting profoundly from President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill.)

But Reeves never did get around to addressing that third successful Waller platform idea: Medicaid expansion. In fact, Reeves has quadrupled down on his resistance to it. Most people blame Reeves solely for Mississippi not joining 40 other states — including many Republican-controlled ones — in passing the reform that would provide health care to at least 200,000 poor, working people.

Today, Reeves faces the same headwinds he faced in that 2019 primary against Waller. Democratic challenger Brandon Presley has made Medicaid expansion — and Reeves’ refusal to accept it — one of two main planks of his platform. 

But this year, Presley has something that Waller didn’t have four years ago: a borderline insurmountable hospital crisis that every Mississippian is deeply familiar with.

Today, almost half of Mississippi’s rural hospitals are at risk of closure, according to one report. Many financially struggling hospitals cite major losses on uncompensated care, or services provided to people without health insurance coverage — emergency rooms by law cannot turn patients away, regardless of their coverage status.

Mississippi, which is home to one of the highest percentages of uninsured residents, continues to rank as the least healthy state in the nation. We are leading the nation in so many negative health outcome rankings.

READ MORE: Why so many top candidates are ignoring Mississippi’s worsening hospital crisis

A big solution to these problems, Presley has argued, just like Waller argued in 2019, is Medicaid expansion. As the health care crisis worsens, more Republicans than ever before support Medicaid expansion. In multiple polls conducted this year, more than 50% of Republican voters said they support expansion. Even incoming Republican Speaker of the House Jason White publicly says lawmakers will consider expansion in 2024, and that his party deserves criticism for refusing to consider it.

Reeves, meanwhile, is struggling to reach 50% support in polling ahead of the Nov. 7 election, and political operatives on both sides are preparing for the first general election runoff in state history, which would occur on Nov. 28.

Waller, who publicly considered but decided against challenging Reeves again in the 2023 GOP primary, must be asking himself how differently his 2019 primary runoff would’ve gone had the hospital crisis been at the forefront like it is in 2023.

In November, Presley just might be able to answer that question for him.

READ MORE: Bill Waller did not endorse Tate Reeves in 2019 governor’s race

Headlines From The Trail

Tight governor’s race has Tate Reeves putting in the shoe leather

Democrats keep hammering Gov. Tate Reeves for refusing Medicaid expansion

‘Help’s on the way’: What Presley plans to do for students, Mississippians

Mississippi could see historic turnout on Election Day, according to Democratic Party candidate for governor

Mississippi should set minimum wage higher than federal level, says Democrat running for governor

There will be major U.S. elections next month. Here are some to watch.

What We’re Watching

1) Brandon Presley on Tuesday called for an increase in Mississippi’s $7.25-per-hour minimum wage. It’s an interesting position to take late in a campaign, and one that has earned some bipartisan support in several other states. Many people in Mississippi, home to the nation’s lowest median household income and highest poverty rate, may appreciate the proposal. But not everyone. On Wednesday, a conservative blogger panned Presley’s proposal as “a familiar Democratic tune.”

2) Tate Reeves and Brandon Presley will be at the Mississippi Economic Council’s annual Hobnob event, where business leaders from across the state will hear speeches from candidates for statewide offices. It’s one of very few times this cycle where the two candidates have been in the same room. Presley speaks at 11:25 a.m., and Reeves speaks at 11:50 a.m.

3) Reeves is expected to travel to Oxford on Thursday evening for the annual Good Ole Boys and Gals event. A Mississippi political tradition for about 30 years, this gathering at a shed in the woods allows people to eat barbecue, then grill Mississippi political candidates one-on-one. Four years ago, when Reeves was running for a first term in office, Donald Trump Jr. attended the event. Might there be another high-profile guest this year?

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Getting out the vote.

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Less than two weeks before the Nov. 7 statewide election, top Democratic leaders are continuing to pound the drum on Mississippi’s hospital crisis and the need for state officials to expand Medicaid coverage to the working poor. 

Speaking on the front steps of the state Capitol on Wednesday morning, three Democratic lawmakers sharply criticized Republican Gov. Tate Reeves for standing in the way of expansion, which experts estimate would generate billions for the state.

“He’ll tell you over and over that it’s Mississippi’s time,” House Minority Leader Robert Johnson III said. “For who, governor? Who are you talking about? You and your donors? Because I don’t think the people in my district and community will describe what they see as Mississippi momentum.” 

Reeves’ campaign did not respond to a request for comment, but the governor has said in previous remarks that he remains opposed to expansion and derisively calls the proposal “welfare expansion.” The governor’s Democratic challenger Brandon Presley, meanwhile, has made health care one of the major themes of his campaign platform and has promised to expand Medicaid on “day one” that he’s sworn into office.

Almost half of Mississippi’s rural hospitals are at risk of closure, according to one report. Many financially struggling hospitals cite major losses on uncompensated care, or services provided to people without health insurance coverage — emergency rooms by law cannot turn patients away, regardless of their coverage status. 

Mississippi’s hospitals lose about $600 million on uncompensated care annually. Hospital leaders say Medicaid expansion would greatly reduce the amount of uncompensated care they provide.

After brushing off questions for months about the severity of the hospital crisis, Reeves unveiled a proposal in September that’s supposed to pull in more federal dollars to increase Medicaid reimbursement to hospitals.

But Senate Minority Leader Derrick Simmons, D-Greenville, told Mississippi Today on Wednesday that Reeves’ previous effort is not sufficient in the long run, calling the effort “too little, too Tate” as a play on the governor’s first name. 

“Based on my understanding of this proposal, it’s only going to be a one-time fix or not a solution to a long-term problem,” Simmons said. “And the real solution that is clear is Medicaid expansion to give hospitals the relief they need and also to help those 200,000 working Mississippians.” 

For years, a cycle has repeated itself at the state Capitol: Democratic lawmakers file legislation to expand Medicaid coverage to additional Mississippians, Republican leaders kill those efforts and Democratic legislators cry foul. Across the state, voters keep reelecting the same Republicans to office who oppose Medicaid expansion.

But the trio of legislators on Wednesday said if Presley, the Democrat challenging Reeves, defeats the incumbent and flips the Governor’s Mansion, then some of the GOP holdouts might come around to the idea of expansion.

Sen. David Blount, D-Jackson, believes the coordinated message around expansion and the hospital crisis will be different this year and translate into actual results at the ballot box next month. 

Blount used previous legislative efforts to give poor mothers additional Medicaid benefits after they give birth as an example to show how the party’s constant push for additional benefits for vulnerable Mississippians can lead to actual results. 

Both chambers of the Legislature earlier this year overwhelmingly passed a proposal to extend postpartum Medicaid benefits for new mothers for up to a year after giving birth. Reeves finally signed the legislation into law after long-refusing to take a stance on the policy.

“Postpartum extension for years in the Legislature was a Democratic issue and only Democrats were pushing for it,” Blount said. “This year is an election year, and this year, ordinary people … called their legislators and called their statewide officials and said you need to change your position.”

Presley and Reeves will participate in a televised debate on Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. Some voters can already cast an absentee ballot for the race, but the general election will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 7. 

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An event aimed at improving health care and expanding Medicaid in Mississippi is making its way to Jackson Thursday.  

Together for Hope, a nonprofit working with the poorest counties in America, teamed up with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network in Alabama and Mississippi this year to host “Better Health Summits” throughout the two states — two of only 10 states that have not expanded Medicaid. 

“Health is one of our priorities of hope,” said Dr. Debbie Pierce, assistant to Together for Hope’s president.

In Mississippi, the organizations have hosted summits over the past six weeks in Aberdeen, Meridian and Cleveland, targeting community leaders, health care workers, social workers and anyone interested in health care in Mississippi “and how together we can work to make a change,” Pierce said.

Medicaid expansion has emerged as one of the headline issues of this year’s upcoming gubernatorial election.

Despite the support of the majority of Mississippians, Gov. Tate Reeves has remained stalwart in his opposition to Medicaid expansion, which would bring more than $1 billion a year to the state. One report shows nearly half of rural hospitals are at risk of closure in Mississippi, one of the sickest states in the country.

Conversely, Reeves’ Democratic opponent, Brandon Presley, has vowed to change the policy on day one in office. 

READ MORE: Brandon Presley again vows to expand Medicaid as Gov. Tate Reeves reiterates opposition

So far, speakers at the summits have included State Health Officer Dr. Daniel Edney and other notable doctors, faith leaders and advocates. Dr. Dan Jones — the former president of the American Heart Association and former chancellor of the University of Mississippi and dean and professor emeritus at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine — is scheduled to speak at tomorrow’s event at Duling Hall, along with other representatives from state medical organizations. 

“Each of these speakers come with different experiences that lead them to a deep conviction that all should have access to good health care,” Pierce said. “There is compelling and data driven proof that expanding Medicaid could be one way to begin this process.”

Through panels and presentations, summit attendees will learn about and discuss the availability of community health care resources, health policy issues, the state of hospitals, navigating our current health care system and social determinants of health.

The free event will kick off at 9:30 a.m. and conclude at 2 p.m. after a call to action. Registration for the event is free. 

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