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2012 MAGNET ® UPDATE
Recognizing Nursing Excellence
Special
Section

MAGNET PROFILES UPDATE
Compelling reasons to seek
ANCC Magnet Recognition ®
Welcome to our special Magnet ® Update section.
In these pages, you’ll find out how organizations
are enacting Magnet principles.
If your organization isn’t yet a Magnet facility,
consider these top 10 reasons for seeking Magnet
recognition:
10. Boosts organizational pride
9. Increases nurses’ professionalism
8. Improves nurse retention and attracts top talent
7. Engages coworkers to collaborate for efficient
and effective care
6. Fosters appreciation for everyone’s role in
the patient experience
5. Reinforces the standards
of nursing practice
4. Advances evidence-based
practice and allows sharing
of best practices
3. Taps innovative ideas of nurses on the front
lines
2. Highlights nursing’s essential role in improving
the safety and quality of care
1. Demonstrates a commitment to better patient
outcomes through nursing excellence
We hope the articles in this section encourage
you to apply for Magnet recognition. If your facility
has already earned Magnet recognition, we think
you'll find these articles useful as you promote a
culture of collaboration and positive outcomes.
Pamela F. Cipriano, PhD, RN, FAAN, NEA-BC
Editor-in-Chief
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Recession, reform,
redesignation—oh my!
Find out how to energize staff for Magnet ®
redesignation in challenging times.
By Carolyn Ramwell, MSN, RN; Jean Blankenship, MSN, RN, PHCNS BC, CDE;
and Mary Wolfe, AAS, RN
MAGNET UPDATE
Nurses have built on the legacy of past decades
to become empowered, collaborative, outcome-oriented
healthcare team members.
Every nursing generation has had champions
who’ve embodied a new nursing paradigm. In this
young century, the champion isn’t a single person
or symbol but individual nurses at each bedside,
hospital, home, or clinic who embody the values of
Magnet ® excellence.
Today’s healthcare environment and economic
climate pose unique challenges. In the current
somber reality, how can we infuse staff with the optimism
and pride of the Magnet journey? How do
we excite and invigorate nursing colleagues? Is the
cheer leading of the past appropriate?
Quality outcomes, evidence-based practice,
and shared decision making
When the Magnet Champion Committee at Martha
Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia, faced
these questions during our 2011 Magnet redesignation
drive, we came up with creative solutions. Our
Magnet champions became grounded for the redesignation
journey by focusing on nurse-driven quality
outcomes, evidence-based practice, staff empowerment,
and opportunities for kindness and gratitude.
We celebrated organizational outcomes for patient
satisfaction and patient falls and pressure-ulcer prevention,
validating nurses’ power to significantly
improve patient outcomes. Use of data from the National
Database of Nursing Quality Indicators ® for
annual nurse satisfaction provided opportunities for
national benchmarking and collaborative recognition
at the unit level.
Our shared governance (SG) councils demonstrate
leadership and empowerment through advancing
evidence-based practice, committing to professional
development, adopting new knowledge, and taking
responsibility for quality outcomes. This enculturated
SG model says loudly to each nurse, “We are our
own heroes” who define our practice and own our
outcomes through quality improvement, leadership,
and collaborative practice.
The pride nurses showed at our Magnet site visit
when they shared stories
of nurse-led practice
changes spoke to the
success of our SG model. Small issues can be vitally
important to staff, and favorable resolution can
dramatically affect their work satisfaction. For example,
a change in emergency-department policy
allowed staff to have covered beverages at their
work stations—a huge satisfier in a fast-paced environment
where hydration is important and breaks
are unpredictable.
Monthly electronic “dashboards” provide nursesensitive
quality-indicator measures as well as patient,
physician, and nurse satisfaction data. Data
are reviewed at unit and hospital-wide SG council
meetings and staff meetings. Magnet champions
have raised staff awareness of unit-level data and
involved staff in actions to maintain or improve
outcomes. We celebrate excellent performance at
staff meetings, SG council meetings, and Magnet
champion meetings. Nurses have ownership of the
information, as their dashboards directly reflect
their unit’s practice.
Effective redesignation strategies
Enculturation of a shared decision-making model is
essential for success. SG council members and Magnet
champions supported our Magnet redesignation
journey by participating in multidisciplinary
focus groups to gather evidence for redesignation
documents. Champions used creative strategies to
engage staff across all shifts in preparing for Magnet
appraiser site visits through information exchange
using games, posters, brown-bag lunches,
and celebration of Magnet moments at staff meetings,
on intranet web pages, and at shift-change
“huddles.” With minimal impact on unit budgets,
small gifts and food items, “Wordles” (text rearranged
into a visual pattern) from our Magnet
document, and unit-level scrapbooks filled with examples
of nursing excellence helped staff celebrate
redesignation.
Magnet champions communicated information
to staff to ease anxieties about the site visit. Mag-
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Carilion Clinic
1906 Belleview Avenue
Roanoke, VA 24014
800-599-2537
Dana Johnson
dejohnson@carilionclinic.org
www.CarilionClinic.org
Level 1 trauma center.
Aspire to be among the best.
Carilion nurses are…
• Committed to finding better ways to
improve the health of the communities
we serve.
• Thriving in an empowered practice
environment that is guided by transformational
leaders.
• Dedicated to the professional development
and advancement of nurses
as expert practitioners, researchers,
teachers, and mentors.
• Respected and rewarded for the work
they do within the hospital and
among many communities in southwest
Virginia.
• Actively engaged in interdisciplinary
evidence-based initiatives that improve
patient care and safety using
the most advanced technologies and
innovative strategies.
Carilion Clinic is an Equal Employment
Opportunity/Affirmative Action
Employer.
Children’s National Medical
Center
111 Michigan Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20010
202-476-5397
Sharon Livingston, MA, BSN, RN
slivings@childrensnational.org
www.childrensnational.org
303 Beds
Level IIIC NICU; Level I pediatric
trauma center; Critical Care Transport
Teams; Magnet recognized facility;
NICU, CICU & PICU received Beacon
Award for Critical Care Excellence;
Regional referral center for cancer,
cardiac, orthopaedic surgery, neurology,
and neurosurgery.
Children’s National Medical Center,
located in Washington, D.C., is a proven
leader in the development of innovative
new treatments for childhood illness
and injury. For more information about
Children’s National Medical Center,
visit www.childrensnational.org.
Cleveland Clinic: Main Campus
& Fairview Hospital
9500 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44195
216.448.0305
Katie Cwalinski
kcwalins@ccf.org
clevelandclinic.jobs
Cleveland Clinic is ranked as one of the
nation’s top four hospitals by U.S.News
& World Report. Both our Main Campus
and Fairview Hospital have achieved
Magnet Status. Visit clevelandclinic.org
for more information.
MedStar Franklin Square
Medical Center
9000 Franklin Square Drive
Baltimore, MD 21237
443-777-7045
medstarfranklin.org
Michael Clancy
michael.clancy@medstar.net
400 Beds (all private rooms)
MedStar Franklin Square is a community
teaching hospital in eastern Baltimore
County. We offer a broad range of
healthcare specialties, advanced technologies
and treatments. We are accredited
by the Joint Commission, Primary
Stroke Center certified and Magnet designated,
as well as the recipient of numerous
local and national quality awards.
We are a member of MedStar Health,
the region’s largest integrated health
system, repeatedly named a “Best Place
to Work.”
Mary Washington Healthcare
2300 Fall Hill Ave., Suite 207
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
540-741-1399
Darla Burton
darla.burton@mwhc.com
http://www.mwhccareers.com
Beds: Fredericksburg, 437; Stafford, 100
Mary Washington Healthcare consists
of two leading hospitals and 28 facilities
and wellness services including the
Human Motion Institute, Neuroscience
Center, Regional Cancer Center, Virginia
Heart & Vascular Institute and Women’s
Health Institute.
Magnet ® facilities
outperform other hospitals
in both recruiting and
retaining nursing
professionals, resulting in
higher employee satisfaction
and lower staff turnover.
2012 National Magnet
Conference ® will be held
October 10-12
in Los Angeles, California.
www.anccmagnetconference.org
UNC Health Care
101 Manning Drive
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
919-966-2012 or
1-800-852-NURSE (toll-free)
Nurse Employment Office
www.UNCHealthCare.org
803 Beds
Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence
– American Association of Critical
Care Nurses. Our Cardiothoracic
Intensive Care Unit was a recipient in
2008, 2010 and our Cardiac Intensive
Care Unit received the award in 2010.
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net preparation was added to unit-level
and hospital meetings as a standing
agenda item. Redesignation documents
were posted on the hospital intranet for
staff to read. Magnet champions identified
parts of the documents where their
units were recognized, and highlighted
these stories for staff.
Champions and others in the organization
were encouraged to submit abstracts
to the National Magnet Conference
® as a way to share and celebrate
organizational successes. A nursing endowment
gift allowed all interested
Magnet champions to attend the conference
celebrating our redesignation.
Accepted authors for podium or poster
presentations got organizational support
to attend the conference.
As a low-cost, high-benefit strategy,
we collaborated on a mock survey in April 2011
with another Virginia Magnet hospital applying for
redesignation at the same time. During this visit,
two nurse leaders appraised our staff as a Magnet
surveyor would, providing an outsider’s objective
look at our organization. Staff nurses responded
positively to the process. They began to see the
mock survey as an opportunity to be recognized for
the care they deliver. The mock survey also guided
Evaluating Magnet ® redesignation
preparation
After the Magnet appraisers’ site visit, nursing staff were asked to complete
a survey (n = 77) to evaluate the effectiveness of our redesignation preparation
process. Here are the nurses’ top five responses to the question “Which
of these activities was most helpful in preparing you for our Magnet redesignation
site visit?”:
• Active participation on a committee, team, or shared governance council
• Preparation activities by Magnet champions
• Formal prep sessions with the Magnet coordinator, Magnet program
director, or Magnet steering committee
• Information provided at unit-level staff meetings
• “Mock” site visit in April 2011 with support from Virginia Magnet Consortium
colleagues
our champions to focus on discussion of unit-level
data and highlight work-design changes that have
boosted nurse satisfaction. The mock survey helped
staff view the site visit as a chance to showcase
their excellence in nursing practice.
More on Magnet champions
Magnet champions were chosen for their demonstrated
enthusiasm and dedication to nursing.
MAGNET UPDATE
KEVIN
Registered Nurse
WE’VE BUILT OUR REPUTATION AS AN
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Best Company,” a 2011 Richmond Employer of Choice and a
recipient of the 2011 Alfred P. Sloan Award for Workplace
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Experience first-hand
the difference Magnet
Designation ® makes
Nurses at MedStar Franklin Square Medical
Center in Baltimore, Maryland are proud to
deliver excellence in patient care worthy of
the nation’s most prestigious honor - Magnet
Recognition ® . We thrive in a shared decisionmaking
environment where our voice is heard
at every level of the organization. We forge
strong interdisciplinary partnerships to meet
the unique needs of each patient entrusted
to our care.
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Champion meetings focused on celebrating the
commitment to high-quality nursing care and helping
champions spread their enthusiasm across their
units. Monthly meetings gave champions opportunities
to share with others the ideas that worked on
their units, as well as to create props (chocolate
kisses, magnets for lockers, lapel pins, flash cards,
Jeopardy games, and bulletin boards) to help them
celebrate Magnet redesignation throughout the organization.
Magnet champion strategies varied from unit to
unit but shared a common theme. Champions
were responsible for developing and finding creative
ways to share the theme for our Magnet journey.
A schematic depiction of the Journey to Magnet
Excellence was turned into a jigsaw puzzle in
a family waiting room to share our journey with
our community. In October 2011, champions decorated
pumpkins for their units that served as icebreakers
for Magnet discussions where nurses
shared their stories. Stories were collected for bulletin
boards, photo albums, scrapbooks, and
posters. “Magnet Moments” became part of our
shift-change huddles. Our champions focused on
practicing gratitude, being creative, and remembering
to find joy in the journey.
To avoid “Magnet fatigue,” overstimulation, and
message overload, our champions shared information
in succinct communications. They alternated
communication methods, including e-mails, bulletin
boards, scrapbook updates, and face-to-face
conversations. During a particularly busy month,
they took a formal communication “break.” One
champion described our Magnet journey as a progressive
dinner that would take time, rather than
a Thanksgiving feast we would prepare and eat
all at once. (See Evaluating Magnet redesignation
preparation.)
Cost-effective and successful
We spent about $10,000 less preparing for our
Magnet redesignation site visit than we did for
our initial Magnet designation site visit. The real
measure of our success came on July 21, 2011,
when we found out we’d achieved Magnet redesignation.
The true value in our redesignation is
knowing that our organizational commitment to
excellence remains a priority despite healthcare
complexities, the economic downturn, and competing
priorities. A passion for excellence is our
“true north”—and Magnet is the compass that
guides our journey.
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443-777-7045 phone
medstarfranklin.org/nursing
The authors work at Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia. Carolyn
Ramwell is a clinical nurse in the free-standing emergency department and a
member of the adjunct faculty at the University of Phoenix. Jean Blankenship is
the Magnet coordinator. Mary Wolfe is a clinical nurse IV and shift coordinator in
the free-standing emergency department.
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Breaking competitive
barriers: The Colorado
Magnet ® Collaborative
Through a regional collaborative, Magnet Program Directors
achieve more together than any one director could achieve alone.
MAGNET UPDATE
By Danielle H. Schloffman, MSN, RN, NE-BC; Jeanine M. Rundquist, MSN, RN, CRRN; Kathleen A. Bradley, DNPc,
RN, NEA-BC; Zachary D. Mueller, DNP, RN, NEA-BC; Donna D. Poduska, MS, RN, NE-BC, NEA-BC; and Meredith
C. Taylor, BSN, RN, OCN
Magnet ® organizations have been shown to
deliver exceptional patient care and outcomes
and to demonstrate a culture of patient
safety and collaborative work environments.
Each individual Magnet organization is strong, but a
group of Magnet organizations working together as
a collaborative can have an even greater influence
on the work environment and patient experience.
The Colorado Magnet Program Director (MPD)
Collaborative consists of eight diverse Magnet organizations,
including an acute rehabilitation hospital,
a pediatric hospital, an academic medical center,
and five community-based hospitals. Magnet organizations
are expected to mentor other organizations.
Through this collaborative, we share best practices
with peer Magnet and non-Magnet organizations,
nurture professional nursing in our state, and improve
healthcare outcomes for our communities.
Collaborative benefits
Partnering as a group of exceptional healthcare organizations
brings benefits—yet it can pose challenges.
Most of the organizations in our collaborative
are part of their own separate health systems,
meaning they compete with each other. Nonetheless,
we’ve been able to put competitiveness aside
and break down the barriers between us. The Magnet
Recognition Program ® gives member organizations
a shared purpose that serves as the platform to
build relationships among the MPDs in each program.
Formalizing our relationship into a collaborative
partnership brings even greater achievements.
The MPD role can be lonely; other professionals
in the organization may have difficulty understanding
the demands and complexities of the
MPD role. The collaborative allows MPDs to connect
with peers who can provide emotional support,
consultation, and advice. Equally crucial, it
allows MPDs to share innovations that enhance
their own organizations and patient care.
Other benefits of the collaborative include helping
each other interpret Magnet standards and expectations
and helping each other prepare for document
submission, Magnet appraiser site visits,
and post-appraisal debriefings. We accomplish
these goals by meeting quarterly, alternating sites.
Joint events
To meet Magnet expectations, each member organization
in the collaborative already was mentoring
aspiring Magnet organizations at the local, state,
and national levels. In August 2010, we held a
joint event to mentor other Colorado organizations;
invitations had been e-mailed to all chief
nursing officers (CNOs) and MPDs in the state. The
agenda included assessing readiness for the Magnet
journey, the MPD’s role, Magnet document
preparation, and challenges and barriers. More
than 50 professionals representing 26 organizations
attended. Evaluations were positive. Here’s a
sampling: “Most useful program for Magnet journey
to date” and “I enjoyed the collaboration of
the various (Magnet) hospitals.” This feedback motivated
us to continue the tradition.
We used comments from these evaluations to
build the agenda for our next event in August 2011.
We expanded the joint session to encompass a full
8-hour day. Again, all Colorado CNOs and MPDs
were invited. Registrants came from 27 organizations;
more than 100 people attended. Some organizations
brought their entire leadership team, including
several interdisciplinary team members. Based
on feedback from our first event, we added a review
of the Magnet Model Components, along with other
topics, such as keys to staff engagement and preparing
staff for the site visit. Also, we provided a CNO
panel, which gave attendees insight into the CNO’s
perspective of the Magnet journey and offered a
question-answer forum. Like the first event, this one
offered continuing-education credit hours.
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While evaluation feedback from this event was
positive overall, the responses reflected varying levels
of knowledge about the Magnet Model Components
and the Magnet journey. For 2012, the challenge is
to meet the needs of a diverse audience and address
the wide range of Magnet-related knowledge.
Mock site visits
One of the most stressful times for an MPD is the
Magnet appraiser site visit. To help prepare staff for
anticipated questions and build confidence in their
interactions with appraisers, our collaborative held
mock site visits. These visits, conducted by the various
MPDs, were designed to emulate an actual site
visit. They were scheduled 4 to 6 weeks before the actual
appraiser visit to give ample time for improvements
and staff education, if necessary. To prepare
for the visits, the collaborative developed a list of 60
questions. Each organization chose mandatory questions
to ask staff during the mock visit, based on gap
analysis. The mock appraisers (Colorado MPDs)
were escorted by staff members from the host organization,
who would later escort Magnet appraisers
for the actual site visit. The appraisers completed
20- to 30-minute visits of each area. Staff escorts and
mock appraisers took notes of findings and recommendations.
The mock visits took 4 to 5 hours. Afterward,
debriefings were held with Magnet teams and
nursing leaders to share strengths, vulnerabilities,
and opportunities for improvement. Each MPD was
expected to maintain professionalism and confidentiality
during and after mock site visits.
Sharing information, ideas, and educational
tools
Our collaborative has broken through the competitive
barriers between us by sharing information,
ideas, and educational tools and by offering feedback.
Members share ideas to inspire staff in the
continuing Magnet journey. Innovation and creativity
are essential to promoting staff engagement.
MPDs feel ownership for this creativity. For example,
one organization completed an educational
tool for staff before the site visit. This pocket-sized
guide, organized according to the Magnet model,
listed important elements of the organization’s
Magnet application. The idea was shared in the
collaborative and used as a template for future site
visits by all member organizations. Other shared
ideas include a Magnet fair involving games, word
puzzles, poster competitions, door prizes, physician
information sheets, samples of electronic and written
communication, unit-specific toolkits,
MPD/CNO open forums, weekly huddles for Magnet
teams, and targeted committee preparation.
Reaching beyond the collaborative
Our collaborative has established community part-
Connecting To What Really Matters:
Patients and Families
Children’s National Medical Center is designated as a Magnet ® * Hospital.
Our dedicated Professional Registered Nurses have earned this designation
because of their exemplary care and outcomes. Our nurses acknowledge
that their practice allows the special “gift” to enter “sacred spaces” between
children and their families.
This relationship is part of a precious circle where trust is implicit and where
professional nurses are part of the patient and family’s joys and challenges.
We are proud to be a Magnet ® Hospital:
• Transformational Leadership;
• Structural Empowerment;
• Exemplary Professional Practice;
• New Knowledge, Innovations, and Improvements;
and • Empirical Outcomes.
For additional information, please visit: www.childrensnational.org/nursing
eoe, m/f/d/v
*Magnet status
is granted by the
American Nurses
Credentialing Center,
the world’s largest
nurse credentialing
organization and
a subsidiary of the
American Nurses
Association (ANA).
The Magnet
Recognition
Program ® , ANCC
Magnet Recognition ® ,
Magnet ® , National
Magnet Conference ®
names and logos are
registered trademarks
of the American
Nurses Credentialing
Center. Journey to
Magnet Excellence TM
is a trademark of the
American Nurses
Credentialing Center.
All rights reserved.
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Tangible take-aways
Tangible take-away points from the Colorado Magnet®
Program Director Collaborative include professional practice
models, clinical innovations, evidence-based practice
models, leadership structures, educational tools, guest presentations,
and marketing materials.
ners by reaching out to home care agencies, senior
care facilities, ambulatory settings, academic institutions,
and professional organizations. Members of
our collaborative act as content experts to provide
education about the Magnet journey and achieving
Magnet recognition. MPDs also partner with local
universities to expose nursing students to the Magnet
culture. We partner with each other as a speaker’s
bureau on Magnet-related topics, acting as consultants
to support organizations in the collaborative—
and beyond. We also have cohosted visitors from
London, Switzerland, Australia, and Lebanon, serving
as mentors for their organizations in their own
pursuit of Magnet recognition.
Reaping the benefits
Colorado MPD Collaborative members have found
the benefits of being in the collaborative far outweigh
the challenges. (See Tangible take-aways.) MPDs
have a unique perspective, focusing on promoting
professionalism and advancing nursing practice. The
collaborative provides the support and relationships
needed to achieve these tangible outcomes.
Our plans include developing a formal charter,
connecting with the Colorado Hospital Association
and Colorado Organization of Nurse Leaders, and
developing a collaborative for MPDs on the Magnet
journey. Partnering with state organizations will give
our collaborative greater reach in promoting the future
of nursing through the Magnet framework.
We’ve found that collaborating has immeasurable
value. Together, we can achieve more than any
one MPD could achieve alone.
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MAGNET UPDATE
Selected references
Visit www.AmericanNurseToday.com/Archives.aspx for a list of selected
references.
Danielle H. Schloffman is a Magnet Program Director at University of Colorado
Hospital in Aurora, Colorado. Jeanine M. Rundquist is a Magnet Program Director
at Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora, Colorado. Kathleen A. Bradley is a
Director of Performance, Practice and Innovation and Magnet Program Director at
Porter Adventist Hospital in Denver, Colorado. Zachary D. Mueller is a Vice
President of Nursing & Associate Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) at Medical City Dallas
Hospital & Medical City Children’s Hospital in Dallas, Texas. Donna D. Poduska is a
CNO at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado. Meredith C. Taylor is a
Director of Professional Practice at North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley,
Colorado. We would like to acknowledge newer members of the Colorado MPD
Collaborative, including Barbara Ochsner, MSN, RN-BC; Lisa Shelton, MSN, RN,
CRRN; and Jane Jostes-Wanek, MSN, RN-BC.
Office of Nurse Recruitment
Valley Health
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Winchester, VA 22601
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Winchester Medical Center
1840 Amherst Street
Winchester, VA 22601
Sharyn Gaither
Director of Nurse Recruitment
sgaither@valleyhealthlink.com
www.valleyhealth.jobs
445 Beds
These are exciting times at the Winchester
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the needs of our growing community. In
addition to being a Magnet Facility and
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Medical Center is also the only
Level II Trauma Center, Nationally Certified
Chest Pain Center with PCI, and
Advanced Primary Stroke Center in the
region. Our non-profit hospital serves
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resource for the more than 400,000
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Richmond, VA 23298
804-628-0918
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