Health Care Heroes: Mary Haynes

Source: Louisville Business First
By Allison Stines

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Mary Haynes

President and CEO, Nazareth Home Inc.

Category: Innovator

Years in the industry: 31

Years at current position: 21

Hometown: Marrowbone, Kentucky

Lives: Prospect

Hobbies: Entertaining, learning and history

Describe your job and your responsibilities.

Leadership and strategy development for a long-term care health care organization founded in Catholic values.

What advancement in health care are you most looking forward to?

Continuity and choice. I expect at all points across the health care continuum significant breaks exist, but we see personal needs for coordination of chronic conditions as we seek to put the pieces together for elders, patients, and families.

We need to address choice and the only way to have a real choice in treatment is clear information about conditions. We have a long way to go here in our aging culture where specialty medicine is routine. The World Health Organization says one out of two people are ageist.

The impact of ageism in our culture impacts health care for those who are aged, and it impacts the health care organizations such as ours that are solely for aged people.

What is your top goal for 2023?

Growth in partnerships with like-minded organizations to improve and sustain our person-centered mission to aging families.

What is your most memorable, career-defining moment?

Career defining moments are learning moments. My greatest learnings are from listening to elders, family members, staff, patients who tell me what I need to know to make our environment and services better.

My experiences have taught me the value of truth in relationship development. There are many times when it has taken a lot of courage to present the truth in a crucial conversation, but the reward is almost always there.

To you, what makes someone a health care hero?

A passion that fuels persistence. There are few human endeavors where the return on investment is quick.

Change is a process and impacts on a system such as health care, and certainly long-term care with its regulations and prescriptions takes passion, persistence and comfort with risk. Doing well within the system is more easily mastered than taking a risk to step out.

My hat is off to those who push for change that helps the individual served as well as helping the organization.

What makes you hopeful about the future of health care in our community?

My hope is always in people reaching a point where they push the system for change. The pandemic and its impact on the workforce have given us a clear message of the value of the team member. Without engaged team members, the greatest technical or clinical improvement cannot be realized.

As I interact with team members, I know they have solutions, and consumers have a lot to say! My hope is for leaders of our health care community to engage both team members and consumers to reach better solutions and outcomes.

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January 23, 2023January 23, 2023

Monthly education series to start this month

Source: The Record

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Nazareth Home is introducing a new monthly Community Education Series.

The first event will take place from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Jan. 25 in the chapel of the Highlands Campus located at 2000 Newburg Road.

Dr. Jane Thibault, a behavioral gerontologist and clinical professor emerita in the Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine at the UofL School of Medicine, will present “Brain Health: Dear God, Where Did I Put My Keys?”

The discussion will explore how memory works, how memory changes normally as we age, factors that affect memory at all ages and memory improvement techniques. The event is free and open to the public. To register in advance, visit nazhome.org/rsvp/.

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January 17, 2023January 16, 2023

A Reflection of 2022

As the year ended, it was natural to think about what was experienced in 2022. We began that year with hopes that COVID concerns would move away from us, and we could look forward to a new normal. COVID is still present, however. Maybe it’s a bit different, and we do feel more secure being vaccinated, but the precautions and requirements continue to be impactful.

Despite the burden of the COVID routines, we reflect on many successes! We love our ministries, the people who work in them, and the families and individuals who are here. The relationships and success stories turn our flywheel and make us stronger. Last year, we were very proud to enter two top workplace ,competitions, one sponsored by Louisville Business First and one by the Courier-Journal. In each, we were recognized locally among a variety of quality organizations as being great places to work. Considering the challenges of our workplace and challenges for the workforce during the pandemic, these positive survey results were such welcome news to us and validated the attention we devote to our culture.

The pandemic has been a great reminder of the value of our environment and culture and the relationships that are fostered because of those strong values. We see clearly that our environment is the way our ministry is evaluated by those who experience it. In December, we were named by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top 10 percent of nursing homes in the nation. Their evaluation is made from performance metrics used to establish quality in long-term care centers and we are beyond proud to be among this distinguished group.

As we plan for 2023, we start with gratitude for our history of service and for everyone who sustains this ministry in the many ways we are supported. We look forward to deepening our partnerships, finding useful and creative technologies, and engaging with purpose with our stakeholders in ways that are clear and meaningful for the community.

Mary Haynes, RN, MS, MSN, CNHA
President/CEO
Nazareth Home

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January 16, 2023January 16, 2023

Appointments to Kentucky Boards and Commissions

Source: The Lane Report

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Gov. Andy Beshear has made the following appointments to Kentucky boards and commissions:

Appointed the following Special Justices to the Supreme Court of Kentucky:

- Hon. J. Paul Long Jr. of Stanford, representing the 3rd Supreme Court District.
- Hon. Christopher Rhoads of Owensboro, representing the 1st Supreme Court District.

Appointed Kori Beck Bumgarner as the Commonwealth’s Attorney for the 8th Judicial Circuit of Kentucky.

Appointed Hart Megibben as the Commonwealth’s Attorney for the 53rd Judicial Circuit of Kentucky.

Appointed Mitchel Denham as a member of the Personnel Board.

- Mitchel Denham of Louisville is an attorney at DBL Law. He replaces Beverly Griffith, whose term has expired, and shall serve for a term expiring Jan. 1, 2027.

Appointed Laura Guffey as a member of the Kentucky Board of Social Work.

- Laura Guffey of Edgewood is a licensed social worker at St. Elizabeth Physicians. She replaces Anne Adcock, who has resigned, and shall serve for the remainder of the unexpired term ending June 21, 2024.

Appointed William Fletcher and Sidney Shouse as members of the Governor’s Advisory Board for Veterans’ Affairs.

- William Fletcher of Louisville is executive director of AMVETS of Kentucky. He replaces Richard Eisert, whose term has expired, and shall serve for a term expiring Dec. 27, 2025.
- Sidney Shouse of Bardstown is a postal worker at the United States Postal Service. He replaces Larry Arnett, whose term has expired, and shall serve for a term expiring Dec. 27, 2025.

Appointed Amanda Davenport and Charles Davis as members of the Water Transportation Advisory Board. Reappointed Timothy Cahill.

- Amanda Davenport of Princeton is executive director of the Lake Barkley Partnership. She replaces Joseph Crabtree, whose term has expired, and shall serve for a term expiring Dec. 27, 2026.
- Charles Davis of Lexington is a civil engineer at Beaver Creek Hydrology LLC. He replaces L. Wayne Cassady, whose term has expired, and shall serve for a term expiring Dec. 27, 2026.
- Timothy Cahill of Paducah is executive director of the Paducah-McCracken County Riverport Authority and shall serve for a term expiring Sept. 30, 2026.

Appointed Joshua Crepps as a member of the Kentucky Board of Home Inspectors. Reappointed James Chandler.

- Joshua Crepps of Coxs Creek is a home inspector at Crepps Home Inspection. He replaces Mitch Buchanan, whose term has expired, and shall serve for a term expiring Dec. 27, 2025.
- James Chandler of Richmond is a home inspector at Chandler Home Inspections Inc. and shall serve for a term expiring Oct. 31, 2025.

Reappointed Bill McCloskey and Todd Clark as members of the Kentucky Tobacco Research Board.

- Bill McCloskey of Bardstown is deputy executive director of the Kentucky Office of Agriculture Policy and shall serve for a term expiring Nov. 24, 2024.
- Todd Clark of Lexington is a farmer at Clark Farms Inc. and shall serve for a term expiring Nov. 24, 2024.

Appointed Mary Haynes as a member of the Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Advisory Council.

- Mary Haynes of Prospect is president and CEO of Nazareth Home. She replaces Michelle Jarboe, whose term has expired, and shall serve for a term expiring Jan. 11, 2026.

Appointed Robin Stratton and Nicholas LaFerriere as members of the Kentucky Heritage Council.

- Robin Stratton of Louisville is retired. She replaces Corinne Pierce, whose term has expired, and shall serve for a term expiring Jan. 11, 2027.
- Nicholas LaFerriere of Louisville is an enterprise transformation lead at Humana. He replaces Betsy Kuster, whose term has expired, and shall serve for a term expiring Jan. 11, 2027.

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January 10, 2023January 10, 2023

ANNOUNCING: Meet LBF’s 2023 Health Care Heroes honorees

ANNOUNCING: Meet LBF's 2023 Health Care Heroes honorees

Source: Louisville Business First
By Allison Stines

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The dedication and achievements of our local health care community knows no bounds.

Louisville Business First’s annual Health Care Heroes program features medical professionals who go above and beyond to care for their patients and the community. We are honoring those who have made an impact on health care in our community through their concern for patients, research, innovation, management skills and rising stars in the field.

We asked our readers to submit nominations for the awards. Nominations were judged by Louisville Business First editors and publisher Lisa Benson.

There were many nominations to review and it was a task to narrow the number down to those we are honoring this year. This year, we are honoring area health care professionals in six categories, as well as our Lifetime Achievement award honoree.

Our Lifetime Achievement honoree is Gilda’s Club Member Engagement Manager Mary Gatton.

Gatton has worked for more than a decade at Gilda’s Club and prior worked for four decades at Hosparus. Gatton’s nominator wrote, “The number of lives Mary has touched in her career is immeasurable. Everywhere I go in the community, people remember the impact she made for them.”

The 2023 Health Care Heroes will be profiled in the Feb. 17-23 edition of Louisville Business First and earlier that week on our website.

An in-person dinner and awards presentation event is scheduled at The Olmsted on Thursday, Feb. 16 from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. You can find more details and register to attend here.

Along with Louisville Business First honoring Gatton and the Health Care Heroes listed below, Louisville Business First Editor-in-Chief Shea Van Hoy host a fireside chat with Tiffany Benjamin.

Benjamin took over as CEO of the Humana Foundation on Jan. 3, 2022, where she is helping the foundation’s mission to advocate for health equity. The Humana Foundation was established in 1981 as the philanthropic arm of Humana Inc.

Here are the honorees broken down by category:

HEALTH ENTREPRENEUR
This award honors an entrepreneurial initiative in the health care business scene that is making strides in the industry.

- Greg Baker, founder and CEO, EmsanaRx, PBC
- Will Metcalf, associate vice president for research development and strategic partnerships, University of Louisville
- Julia Regan, co-founder and CEO, RxLightning

HEALTH EQUITY CHAMPION
This honor is for an organization or person who has worked to break down inequities in health care or health care access for underserved populations or areas of our community, including but not limited to, race, gender, sexual orientation or socioeconomic status.

- Kathe Feliu, case manager/social worker, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicaid in Kentucky
- Dr. Kelly McCants, executive director, Norton Heart & Vascular Institute Advanced Heart Failure & Recovery Program; executive director, Institute for Health Equity, Norton Healthcare Inc.
- Melissa McElroy, clinic director, Dunn Physical Therapy
- Dr. Edward Miller, UofL Physicians – OB/GYN & Women’s Health, UofL Health

INNOVATOR
This award honors someone who breaks ground in the health care field by developing or implementing new technology, treatments, or programs with wide applications.

- David Cook, president and CEO, Hosparus Health & Pallitus Health Partners
- Mary Haynes, president and CEO Nazareth Home
- (joint award) Dr. Matt Holder, CEO, Lee Specialty Clinic; Dr. Henry Hood, chief clinical officer, Lee Specialty Clinic
- Dr. Arif Nazir, chief medical officer, primary care, BrightSpring Health Services
- Jessica Sharon, director of innovation programs, University of Louisville

MANAGER
This award honors leaders ranging from the head of a small company or organization to an executive in a major health system.

- Melisa Adkins, CEO, UofL Health – Mary & Elizabeth Hospital, UofL Health
- Marcie DeWitt, associate vice president, employee health, Baptist Health
- Mary Rodriguez, nursing manager, Baptist Health Louisville
- Mary Lynn Spalding, president and CEO, Christian Care Communities

PROVIDER
This award honors a physician, nurse or other health care professional who works directly with patients and who shows exceptional achievement in his or her work.

- Tricia Cobler, senior nurse practitioner, Pallitus Health Partners
- Dr. Mini Das, cardiologist, Baptist Health Louisville
- Glennesha Mudd, senior family therapist, Family & Children’s Place
- Khaga Sapkota, nursing director, Gathering Club
- Dr. Ben Thornton, neurology hospitalist, Baptist Health Louisville

RISING STAR
A new category this year is our Rising Star. This honor recognizes emerging health care professionals who are making an impact in their company or organization.

- Parker Lacy, vice president of facilities management, Trilogy Health Services
- Corenza Townsend, chief administrative officer, Norton West Louisville Hospital, Norton Healthcare Inc.
- (joint award) Mandi Walker, system executive director, Office of Professional Practice, Nursing Research and Nursing Education, UofL Health – UofL Hospital; Kelly Russell, director, Office of Professional Practice, UofL Health – UofL Hospital

Congratulations to all of our 2023 honorees.

Thanks to our presenting sponsors Baptist Health and Louisville Healthcare CEO Council; and our supporting sponsor Dentons.

Interested in nominating for any of our programs? All of our open nomination forms can be found here.

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December 21, 2022February 7, 2023

Nazareth home gets ‘best Nursing Homes’ rating

Source: The Record

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Nazareth Home Highlands has received a Best Nursing Homes rating in the area of short-term rehabilitation and long-term care from U.S. News & World Report, according to a press release from the home.

U.S. News rated more than 15,000 nursing homes on care, safety, infection rates, staffing and health inspections, said the release. For the first time, the Best Nursing Homes rating also includes new measures based on weekend staffing and infection rates that lead to hospitalizations, the release said.

Mary Haynes, the home’s CEO, said the Best Nursing Homes designation is a “testament to our highly skilled, high-performing team, whose commitment ensures that residents and patients here receive the best person-centered care possible.”

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December 19, 2022January 6, 2023

Mary Ryan academy students visit their school’s namesake

A total of 13 students from Mary Ryan Academy in Louisville paid a very special visit to Nazareth Home earlier this month to meet their school’s namesake. Just weeks prior, they were excited to learn that they’d have an opportunity to meet Mary Ryan, who is currently a Nazareth Home resident.

When the students arrived for “Muffins With Mary,” the first thing 84-year-old Mary said was, “I am just so pleased to see you!”

Mary’s daughter, Angela Ryan, facilitated the discussion between her mother, the students and accompanying teachers. Mary talked about her life as an educator and why it was so meaningful to her.

“It would worry me when children would be out of school. I saw a lot of kids who were down on themselves, and they must understand what they can do,” she said. “How would they understand what they can do unless they get an opportunity to try? If a child is willing to come to school and give it a try, they are going to make it in life. So, we put these kids in situations so they know their abilities and how smart they are. We teach them not to give up. The children end up doing many wonderful things in their lives.”

In 1999, the Norton Academy, a school for special education students, was renamed the Mary Ryan Academy to honor Ryan’s contributions as a special education teacher. A school in the Jefferson County Public Schools system, Mary Ryan Academy currently serves a small number of high school-aged Exceptional Child Education (ECE) students. ECE programs are designed to meet the needs of students with educational disabilities.

“She considered all of the students at Mary Ryan Academy to be hers,” said Angela Ryan. “She loved them so much. This woman has a lot of love to give, and the students there needed some extra love.”

Mary talked to the students that day about the importance of school, applying themselves to their studies and jobs, and keeping their heads up when they make mistakes. She asked them, “What is your ambition? What do you want for yourself when you’re an adult? What can you do to make the best of yourself?”

When Mary was asked to give advice to the kids who were nearing their graduation date, she said, “It’s a special place to be upon graduation to figure out what you want to do, what’s important to you, and what you have to offer the world.”

At the end of their time together, the students gave holiday door hangers they had decorated to all the residents of Spalding Square, which is the Nazareth Home neighborhood where Mary lives.

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December 15, 2022January 6, 2023

U.S. News & World Report names Nazareth Home among best in Kentucky

Source: The Lane Report

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Nazareth Home’s Highlands Campus at 2000 Newburg Road in Louisville has been recognized as a Best Nursing Home for Short-Term Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care for 2022-2023 by U.S. News & World Report.

Now in its 13th year, Best Nursing Homes ratings assist prospective residents and their families in making informed decisions in consultation with their medical professionals regarding short-term or long-term nursing home care. Only 16 percent of skilled nursing facilities in the U.S. earned the Best Nursing Home designation this year.

“It’s an honor to receive this national distinction for our short-term rehabilitation and long-term care programs,” said Nazareth Home President/CEO Mary Haynes. “This achievement is a testament to our highly skilled, high-performing team, whose commitment ensures that residents and patients here receive the best person-centered care possible.”

For 2022-2023, U.S. News rated more than 15,000 nursing homes on care, safety, infection rates, staffing and health inspections. For the first time, the Best Nursing Homes ratings feature a new measure on weekend staffing and an additional measure on infection rates that led to hospitalizations.

“Choosing the right nursing home based on care needs and comfort is critical for prospective residents and their families,” said Zach Adams, health data engineer at U.S. News. “The Best Nursing Homes ratings highlight nursing homes that excel in short-term rehabilitation and long-term care needs.”

The Best Nursing Homes methodology factors in data on resident care, safety, outcomes and more. To calculate the Best Nursing Homes ratings, U.S. News evaluated each nursing home’s performance using various data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Both short and long-term ratings include data on the consistency of registered nurse staffing, use of antipsychotic drugs and success in preventing ER and hospital visits. The long-term care rating also considers whether a home changed ownership and how well they were staffed on weekends. The short-term rehabilitation rating also includes measures of a home’s success in preventing falls, preventing serious infections and making sure residents can return home.

For more information and to view Nazareth Home’s rating, visit Best Nursing Homes.

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December 15, 2022January 6, 2023

U.S. News & World Report names Nazareth Home among best in Kentucky

For 2022-2023, U.S. News rated more than 15,000 nursing homes on care, safety, infection rates, staffing and health inspections. For the first time, the Best Nursing Homes ratings feature a new measure on weekend staffing and an additional new measure on infection rates that led to hospitalizations.

“Choosing the right nursing home based on care needs and comfort is a critical decision for prospective residents and their families,” said Zach Adams, health data engineer at U.S. News. “The Best Nursing Homes ratings highlight nursing homes that excel in short-term rehabilitation and long-term care needs.”

The Best Nursing Homes methodology factors in data on resident care, safety, outcomes and more. To calculate the Best Nursing Homes ratings, U.S. News evaluated each nursing home’s performance using a variety of data obtained from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Both short and long-term ratings include data on the consistency of registered nurse staffing, use of antipsychotic drugs and success in preventing ER and hospital visits. The long-term care rating also considers whether a home changed ownership and how well they were staffed on weekends. The short-term rehabilitation rating also includes measures of a home’s success in preventing falls, preventing serious infections and making sure residents are able to return home.

For more information and to view Nazareth Home’s rating, visit Best Nursing Homes.

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December 14, 2022January 6, 2023

A year in, HELD program at Nazareth Home demonstrates impact

In January 2022, Nazareth Home began a unique partnership with Pallitus Health Partners to better serve its residents with complex, life-limiting medical situations. Known as Helping Embrace Life Decisions (HELD), the program brings together experts from both organizations in the fields of geriatrics and complex disease management to develop plans that meet the individual healthcare needs of the Nazareth Home residents who are referred to the program.

A part of Hosparus Health, Pallitus Health Partners offers comprehensive palliative care for individuals who have very serious illnesses. Specialized services include chronic symptom and medication management, disease education, and care coordination. As of November 2022, 64 residents have been cared for through the HELD program at Nazareth Home.

“We are blessed by our partnership with Nazareth Home so that people living with advanced illnesses can be better served through the HELD program,” said Dr. Bethany Snider, chief medical officer at Pallitus Health Partners. “Creating the HELD program with a combined team of experts a year ago addressed a unique need at Nazareth Home for individuals in medically complex situations who wanted to enhance their quality of life.”

For Kathy Hargis, whose parents Mary and Joseph Bryan were residents at Nazareth Home, the HELD program provided much-needed support through a difficult time. Hargis’s parents spent the last few months of their lives together at Nazareth Home. Her mother became a resident of Nazareth Home’s Charity Court in January of 2020, while her father underwent rehab at Nazareth Home in April of 2020 and came back in February of 2022 to the long-term care program. Her father passed away in May of 2022, roughly a week after returning home, and her mother passed away in August, roughly 10 days after returning home.

“The HELD program helped us be able to figure out a timeline for both my mom and dad,” Hargis said. “Entering the program was very timely, working hand-in-hand with me, and we knew we had a short timeframe. They kept us informed constantly. The support we received from Nazareth Home really brought our family closer and helped us get through losing our parents so close together. This whole process has been an amazing journey.”

Dawn Krebs also found the HELD program to be incredibly supportive when she was helping her father-in-law, Ramon, begin rehabilitation at Nazareth Home.

“We immediately felt at peace with him coming to Nazareth Home,” Krebs said. “You can’t help but feel the presence of God there.”

Krebs’ father-in-law was sent to Nazareth Home for rehabilitation after being at Norton Audubon Hospital in Louisville due to congestive heart failure. When Krebs’ father-in-law arrived at Nazareth Home, he was evaluated and it was determined that he was in much worse condition than anticipated and would likely not make it to rehab. Krebs commended Nazareth Home’s medical director Dr. Bonnie Lazor and her efforts to thoroughly explain the HELD program and how it would help her father-in-law transition comfortably into end-of-life. She said along the way, the nurses at Nazareth Home became “like family.”

Krebs’ father-in-law passed away in August of 2022 after a little over two weeks of care at Nazareth Home.

“The biggest blessing we had was when the whole family was there just a few days after he was admitted,” Krebs said. “Sandra Buchanan, APRN for the HELD program, came in and shared that we were going to start the HELD program for his comfort. They allowed us to sit in the courtyard with him for four hours that day, the grandkids joined us, and we had a wonderful lunch together. Even the beautiful hummingbirds joined us, which were his favorite birds.”

To learn more about Nazareth Home, visit nazhome.org/about-us. To learn more about Pallitus Health Partners, visit pallitushealth.org.

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For Elders & Families

Author: Melissa Bailey

Health Care Heroes: Mary Haynes

Health Care Heroes: Mary Haynes

Monthly education series to start this month

Monthly education series to start this month

A Reflection of 2022

A Reflection of 2022

Appointments to Kentucky Boards and Commissions

Appointments to Kentucky Boards and Commissions

ANNOUNCING: Meet LBF’s 2023 Health Care Heroes honorees

ANNOUNCING: Meet LBF's 2023 Health Care Heroes honorees

Nazareth home gets ‘best Nursing Homes’ rating

Nazareth home gets ‘best Nursing Homes’ rating

Mary Ryan academy students visit their school’s namesake

Mary Ryan academy students visit their school’s namesake

U.S. News & World Report names Nazareth Home among best in Kentucky

U.S. News & World Report names Nazareth Home among best in Kentucky

U.S. News & World Report names Nazareth Home among best in Kentucky

U.S. News & World Report names Nazareth Home among best in Kentucky

A year in, HELD program at Nazareth Home demonstrates impact

A year in, HELD program at Nazareth Home demonstrates impact

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