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The Flag is raised in front of a new hospital in Missouri, funded with support from USDA Rural Development

“Through My Eyes”-A Missouri Community Gets a New Hospital With USDA and Recovery Act Funding Support

I am winding through rural roads in extreme northwest Missouri, away from any large city, in the middle of the country, basically out in the middle of nowhere as some would say, and I am thinking about the investment Rural Development is making; thinking about the amount of money we have provided to the community of Fairfax, population 645 and the county of Atchison, population 6,430. The total investment is almost $39 million for a new hospital, regional wholesale water system, and city distribution system.

Janie Dunning, Missouri State Director, USDA Rural Development Posted in Initiatives Rural

Sep 16, 2010

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