Donnalee Lozeau, director of GO-NORTH, said her philosophy in distributing the hundreds of millions of dollars the federal government is giving New Hampshire to spend on its struggling rural healthcare system will be about long-term investments, not short-term fixes.
“It’s not just about spending the money,” she told the crowd at a New Hampshire Public Health Association meeting in Concord Thursday night. “It’s about investing it.”
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