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| 5 | The portion of total contributions by each person (other than a governmental unit or publicly supported organization) included on line 1 that exceeds 2% of the amount shown on line 11, column (f).. | ||||||
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| 5 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge | ||||||
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| b | Amounts included on lines 2 and 3 received from other than disqualified persons that exceed the greater of $5,000 or 1% of the amount on line 13 for the year. | ||||||
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| 11 | Net income from unrelated business activities not included in line 10b, whether or not the business is regularly carried on. | ||||||
| 12 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.) .. | ||||||
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| 2 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Other gross income (see instructions) | 3 | ||||
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| 5 | Depreciation and depletion | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Portion of operating expenses paid or incurred for production or collection of gross income or for management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for production of income (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
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| 5 | Net value of non-exempt-use assets (subtract line 4 from line 3) | 5 | ||||
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Attach to Form 990 or 990-EZ.
Go to www.irs.gov/Form990 for the latest information.
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| Form 990, Part VI, Line 6: Explanation of Classes of Members or Shareholder | The corporation is organized as a Virginia non-stock, nonprofit corporation with two members: Mountain States Health Alliance, which maintains a 50.1% interest and Johnston Memorial Healthcare Foundation, which maintains a 49.9% interest. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Line 7a: How Members or Shareholders Elect Governing Body | There are two classes of members, and each class is entitled to elect a specified number of directors to the board. The Mountain States Health Alliance class is elected by the MSHA Board of Directors and the Johnston Memorial Hospital class is elected by the Johnson Memorial Healthcare Foundation's Board of Directors. Neither side can veto an appointment. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Line 7b: Describe Decisions of Governing Body Approval by Members or Shareholders | Certain decisions of the board are pursuant to charter and Virginia statute, subject to approval of the members. These decisions include: dissolution of the corporation; merger of the corporation; non-ordinary course of business sale of assets, etc. No ordinary day-to-day decisions are subject to member approval. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process | The CFO reviewed the Form 990 with the Board of Directors prior to filing the return with the IRS. The return was made available to each board member in an electronic format prior to the review. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts | Ballad Health has a conflict of interest policy for all members of the Board of Directors, the Executive Chair/President, Executive Vice Presidents, Senior Vice Presidents, and Vice Presidents, and applies to all Ballad Health organizations, including Johnston Memorial Hospital. All persons covered by this policy are required to complete a conflict of interest disclosure form on an annual basis. Should a conflict arise, it is the responsibility of the conflicted individual to update his or her disclosure immediately. All meetings of the board or board committees have a standing agenda item first on the agenda titled "Conflicts of Interest". If a member of the board or board committee has a conflict of interestinvolving any issue on the board agenda, he or she must declare the conflict of interest during the period allotted for disclosure. If any issue arises during a meeting in which the board member has a conflict of interest, he or she must immediately declare the conflict. While each member of the board or board committees is responsible for disclosing conflicts of interest, it is also the responsibility of any board member aware of a conflict which has not been disclosed to ensure the board is made aware. The presiding officer of a board or board committee meeting mayask a conflicted member to excuse themselves from the meeting during the discussion related to the issue with which the conflict of interest applies. Under no circumstances shall a member vote on a matter that gives rise to a potential conflict. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available | Governing documents and conflict of interest policy are made available upon request to appropriate parties requesting them. Financial statements are made available to those parties who own indebtedness of the company on a quarterly basis. |
| Other Changes In Net Assets Or Fund Balances - Other Increases | Elimination of Intercompany Rec/Pay = $747524 |
| Other Changes In Net Assets Or Fund Balances - Other Increases | Partnership Expense Not on Books = $40305 |
| Other Changes In Net Assets Or Fund Balances - Other Decreases | Partnership Income Not on Books = -$368650 |
| Other Changes In Net Assets Or Fund Balances - Other Decreases | Partnership Interest Income Not on Books = -$12990 |
| Other Changes In Net Assets Or Fund Balances - Other Increases | Temporarily Restricted Net Asset Change = $1000 |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 4a | addition to clinical training, the healthcare students entering our system are required to have orientation and computer training. Participants receiving clinical experience at JMH during FY19 included 183 nursing students from various colleges, universities and programs. This nursing clinical experience required extensive JMH nursing staff involvement. JMH invested $258,054 in the clinical setting and hands-on instruction for nursing students. JMH provided a clinical setting for another 221 students training in health-related programs such as radiology, pharmacy, respiratory therapy, EMT/paramedic, occupational/physical/speech therapy, social work, and other allied-health disciplines. Training for these clinical students cost JMH $254,350. In addition to the hands-on training of clinical students, JMH provides cash donations to local schools. During FY19, JMH donated $80,000 to a local college to be used for nursing faculty.Ballad Healths Johnston Memorial Hospital is planning a dental residency program to provide dental care for the underserved. Pending approval from the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA), the residency will begin in FY2020. According to U.S. Census data, more than 160,000 Southwest Virginia residents do not have adequate access to a dentist. The dire need for dental care in Southwest Virginia was one of the catalysts for Johnston Memorial to plan a dental residency program that will offer advanced training to dentists who have obtained licensure and are interested in furthering their education or specializing in a certain field. The program is a partnership with two local dentists who have a practice located in Bristol, VA and one other dentist who is a professor at the University of Alabama-Birmingham School of Dentistry and co-director of the Comprehensive Implant Residency Program, and Mission Dental Virginia, a nonprofit Virginia corporation organized for the purpose of providing charitable dental services for underserved and uninsured individuals and families of Southwest Virginia. The residency program will establish the Appalachian Highlands Community Dental Center, where a dental resident will provide a variety of services, including preventive care such as sealants, as well as restorative care like crowns, fillings and dentures. The dental care will be offered on a sliding scale to uninsured community members throughout Southwest Virginia. In the coming months, a site will be identified for the clinic. When the clinic reaches full capacity, up to 10 dental residents will provide dental care to members of the community. The clinic will accept patients with a low household income and will benefit countless people in our region, significantly impacting their health. It will also bring dental residents to the area to experience life in Southwest Virginia and, hopefully, some will choose to stay here and practice. Charity and Unreimbursed Costs:Charity Care: While reimbursement for healthcare services rendered is critical to the operation and sustainability of the organization, JMH recognizes its obligation to provide care to individuals who cannot afford essential medical services, including emergency care. JMH accepts all patients regardless of their ability to pay. A patient is classified as a charity patient when they meet the established financial assistance policies of Ballad Health and guidelines outlined by the federal government. However, financial assistance decisions are not solely based on income. Unique financial circumstances are weighed with verified patient assets which can determine financial assistance eligibility. It is not until after verification of income and assets that a decision regarding the amount of financial assistance can be made. In Fiscal Year 2019, JMH incurred a loss of $1,261,231 attributable to the provision of charity care. This amount does not include the costs associated with bad debt accounts.Uninsured Discount: Uninsured patients received an 80% discount through September 30, 2018, at which time the uninsured discount increased to 85%. Certain elective procedures are not eligible for the uninsured discount. This uninsured discount is calculated each year in accordance with Tennessee regulations and without regard to a patients income or assets. Although the uninsured discount is not required by the Commonwealth of Virginia, Ballad Health applies the same discount to our Virginia hospitals, including JMH. The approximate cost of this discount in FY19, using a cost to charge ratio, was $3,791,461 for JMH. JMH partnered with the company Bolder Outreach Solutions to work with self-paying patients who have limited financial resources. Representatives were available at JMH to determine possible governmental medical assistance (Medicaid or TennCare) eligibility, and to help with the application process and follow-up. 1,848 patients were approved during FY19 for coverage. Once a person is approved for Medicaid or TennCare through this program offered through JMH, they retain coverage for future medical care. JMH incurred expense of $167,810 during FY19 to provide this service. Community Donations:JMH provides direct financial contributions that support community healthcare needs and those nonprofit agencies that advocate for the health and well-being of community members. During FY19, JMH made donations to numerous health and human service organizations, social and well-being nonprofits, and others within our service area. We continued our support of local fire and emergency medical rescue organizations with donations of $7,847 in pharmacy drugs and supplies$7,250 was contributed to Washington County Public Schools Crossroads Medical Mission, Inc., a nonprofit that provides medical care to uninsured and low-income patients - $2,100Ecumenical Faith In Action emergency medicine & medical care - $1,000Highlands Community Service Board - child abuse & neglect - $500Washington County Fair - $1,500United Way of SW Virginia nutritious weekend meals to at-risk students in the region - $2,200Town of Abingdon, VA: economic development/support - $2,500University of Virginia womens health event - $1,200Virginia Highlands Festival $1,500Barter Theatre - $14,000William King Museum - $10,000Other small donations - $200In addition to the cost of drugs we donated to nine local medical emergency rescue organizations, our pharmacy staff time to prepare and stock drug boxes for these organizations cost the hospital $5,297. We provided the first aid station at the Virginia Highlands Festival.Our board of directors and senior management encourages team members to devote time to local community service projects, task forces, committees, boards, volunteer programs, and other charitable organizations that benefit our communities. Team members, within reason, are allowed to serve on these outside activities as representatives of the hospital. JMH team members also donate their personal time and money to fundraising activities within the community to benefit other not for profit organizations, such as United Way.Awards and Recognitions:In their 2019 Hospital Quality Rating for Medical Excellence, CareChex Hospital Ratings awarded JMH their highest ratings in the categories of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Heart Attack Treatment, Neurological Care and Womens Health. CareChex provides a comprehensive evaluation of inpatient hospital quality performance using a variety of outcomes of care measures, expressed as a composite quality score.JMH received Healthgrades 2019 Patient Safety Excellence Award. This is the fifth year in a row the hospital has received the award. The safety award places JMH in the top 10% of the nation for patient safety. Healthgrades is a company that provides information about hospitals, physicians, and healthcare providers and has amassed information on over 3 million U.S. health care providers. The patient safety award recognizes hospitals for how well a hospital prevents injuries, infections, and other serious conditions based on 14 serious, potentially preventable adverse events. Patient safety excellence award recipient hospitals have, on average, a lower risk of experiencing patient safety events. JMH received the Chest Pain-MI Registry 2019 Platinum Performance Achievement Award from the American College of Cardiology-NCDR. This award recognizes hospitals participating in Chest Pain-MI Registry who have demonstrated sustained, top level performance in quality of care and adherence to guideline recommendations. Through full participation in the registry, hospitals engage in a robust quality improvement process, using data to drive improvements and positively impact patient outcomes for heart attack patients. The Chest Pain-MI Registry is formerly the ACTION Registry. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 4a | Johnston Memorial Hospital (JMH) is located in Abingdon, Virginia (Washington County). The hospital owns and operates a 116-bed nonprofit acute care hospital. Our primary service area encompasses 7 counties in Southwest Virginia. JMH is the sole member of Abingdon Physician Partners, a tax exempt organization that owns and operates physician practices. Our membership consists of Mountain States Health Alliance (majority owner) and Johnston Memorial Healthcare Foundation, Inc. JMH is part of the Ballad Health network, created when Mountain States Health Alliance and Wellmont Health System merged February 2018.During FY19, 7,157 patients were admitted to our hospital, with just over 27,000 patient days. There were an additional 4,156 observation days and 1,323 newborn days. We provided service for 157,958 outpatient visits this year. There were 34,190 visits to our emergency department, 6,590 surgeries performed and we delivered 581 babies. Promote Community Health:JMH entered into a lease agreement with Highlands Community Services (HCS), a non-profit organization that provides mental health, substance abuse and developmental services to residents of Washington County, Virginia to open a crisis intervention team (CIT) assessment site that will provide a non-criminal justice setting where persons with mental illness can be taken by law enforcement officers for assessment. The goals of the CIT programs are generally oriented toward reducing injuries to both law enforcement and citizens, reducing arrest of persons in behavioral health crisis, improving access and linkage to appropriate community treatment and support, and while promoting dignity and respect for individuals with behavioral health disorders. The foregoing goals are consistent with JMHs mission which is why our hospital agreed to provide space to HCS for an annual rental of just $1. JMH is providing the space to HCS in order to ensure the availability of a crisis intervention site within our community. The fair market value of the lease is $34,376 annually. HCS moved into the space in April so the value of FY19s rental is $8,594.Ballad Health embarked on a campaign near the end of fiscal year 2018 to reduce hospital-acquired C. diff by 30% in 90 days. This was a bold undertaking by Ballad Healths new Clinical Council and our Infection Prevention Department. C. diff is a significant threat to hospital patients everywhere. Its our duty as caregivers to protect our patients from harm at all times, so preventing C. diff is vital. Our plan involves some basic steps our clinical team members should always take to avoid this infection. The plan requires all team members to be mindful of how they treat C. diff., with team members involved in the treatment process receiving specific information appropriate for their role. In addition, a video is available on our intranet site that illustrates some of the key takeaways. Our ultimate goal is zero hospital-acquired C. diff infections. It should be noted that the 30/90 initiative to reduce hospital-acquired C. diff infections was a huge success, as the team, led by Ballad Healths Clinical Council Chair and System Chair of Ballads Hospitalist Division, Dr. Vashist, easily exceeded their goal, reducing C. diff infections system-wide by 44% in FY19. A cost analysis estimates the cost of C. diff at Ballad Health is between $15,642 to $20,736 per case, or an average of $18,189 per case. If applied to the 122 cases of C. diff system-wide that were avoided in FY19, the initiative represents cost savings of $2.2 million dollars for Ballad Health.Additionally, Dr. Vashists efforts have been instrumental in getting Ballad Health selected to participate in two prestigious Coalitions/Collaborative Projects that feature some of the leading healthcare systems in the country: the High Value Care Collaborative through the American Hospital Association in collaboration with the American Board of Internal Medicines (ABIM) Choosing Wisely and Costs of Care and the ACT Coalition to Improve Diagnosis through the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM). Both of these collaborative projects involve like-minded health systems sharing data and best practices on increasing evidence-based care, preventing harm, and reducing unnecessary procedures and testing. Ballad Health leaders have been asked to share with other clinical leaders across the nation information about the keys to success in the C. diff program and other clinical quality improvement initiatives.The JMH Center for Comprehensive Wound Care is the only facility in Southwest Virginia offering hyperbaric oxygen therapy - the delivery of oxygen at levels higher than atmospheric pressure in a chamber setting that stimulates the healing process. The nearest facility offering hyperbaric oxygen therapy is an hour away. Our trained staff follow a team approach to wound healing. Each patient receives a comprehensive individualized plan designed to help difficult-to-heal wounds. JMH staff strive to address the underlying cause of the problem, control infection, and improve the overall health of our patients. We offer a number of services at a significant financial loss to the hospital, such as our Center for Comprehensive Wound Care described above. Some other subsidized services include hyperbaric oxygen, our outpatient diabetes program, inpatient neonatology, and others. The hospital continues to invest resources in these valuable services despite financial loss so that community members do not need to leave the area to obtain needed care. Our diaper assistance program provides diapers to low-income families that deliver at JMH for the first 6 months of the babys life. We had 474 women enroll with their babies this year and incurred expense of $8,455 for this program. We assisted some patients who could not pay for their prescriptions upon discharge from the hospital. Our unreimbursed cost for these prescriptions was $11,038.JMH spent $263,293 during FY19 to recruit and retain physicians and mid-level providers such as hospitalists, family practice physicians, nurse practitioners, and specialists. JMH recruitment efforts are based on documented community need. Our hospital is located in a MUA (medically underserved area/population), as designated by the U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA). MUA designation indicates an area as: having too few primary care providers, having a high infant mortality, a high poverty rate or a high elderly population. Based on our FY19 inpatient discharge data, 87% of our patients live in a medically underserved area. |
| Form 990, Part III, Line 4a | Mountain States Health Alliance (Mountain States) is one of only 29 organizations in the country participating in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) new initiative, Accountable Health Communities Model (referred to as AHC Program), aimed at improving the health of eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. The AHC Program is designed to integrate care for health-related social needs into usual care by implementing systematic screening, referral, and patient navigation services for needs such as food insecurity, housing instability, safety, transportation needs, and utility assistance. Mountain States serves as the Bridge Organization for the AHC Program locally, leading a collaborative of multiple organizations and clinical delivery sites to bring needed services to beneficiaries residing in Southwest Virginia. Full implementation of the AHC Program was achieved during FY19. There are nine full-time team members for the program, whose positions are financed by federal funds, (six Navigators, one Lead Navigator, one Screening and Referral Specialist, and one Program Manager), while two part-time Navigator positions remain open. Fifty-two locations serve as clinical delivery sites in Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee and have processes in place to identify health-related social needs. Patients that screen positive for health-related social needs are given a Community Referral Summary, which contains contact and program information for relevant resources that assist with the needs identified by the screening. Since formal go-live of the AHC Program on November 17, 2018 through June 30, 2019 there have been 61,705 offered screenings, 35,544 answered screenings, 9,050 needs identified, 5,030 Community Referral Summaries given to patients, and 2,142 navigated patients. The stats provided are inclusive of the Ballad Health Virginia hospitals plus three Tennessee hospitals located close to Southwest Virginia. Mountain States also created an internally-produced data system for the screening, referral, and navigation services in lieu of using the CMS AHC Data System. This data system improved operational efficiency by at least five-fold over the CMS Data System. Patient Navigators have been re-deployed from five Virginia Community Services Boards in our service area to hospital emergency departments and primary care offices. This allows the Navigators to establish initial contact with a patient and complete a personal interview and action plan related to the health-related social needs identified by the patient. Laptops and cell phones were purchased for the Navigators to have the ability to work at the clinical delivery sites and from other locations, as needed.We host programs within the community that provide health education to both health professionals and the general public. During Octobers National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, JMH hosted a breast cancer educational event. The Regional Cancer Center oncology team from JMH, including medical and radiation oncologists, gave presentations throughout the evening. The program included health screenings, health education booths and more. JMH incurred expense of $11,493 to host the event. During the year we also funded a first aid tent for an outdoor community festival. The event focused on health and safety. The hospital invested an additional cost of over $86,111 for public service health education, such as heart health, womens health and cancer.JMH is committed to providing comprehensive health education to aid in patient recovery and disease management. We offer classes and support groups, such as diabetes education and support, cardiac care education and support, joint replacement education, cancer education and support through our cancer center, prenatal parenting/sibling classes, and others. In order to increase public awareness of early detection for lung cancer, JMH continued to offer some low-dose CT lung screenings free of charge. The free service started in FY18, continued into FY19, providing an additional 67 free scans. The hospital notified the public as well as local physician offices of the free service. Following JMHs lead, some other Ballad hospitals offered free scans.Our health systems parent company, Ballad Health, provides numerous services to improve the health of our communities. The following services are provided by the Ballad Health entity but funded by the various hospitals and other divisions within our health system. The funding levels by JMH for these services are reflected below:Ballad Health parish nurses work with individual congregations to help people in religious communities improve their health, prevent illness and injury and ease suffering associated with any health crisis. The parish nurse acts as counselor, educator and healthcare provider by identifying needs of the congregation, coordinating health screenings, providing educational programs, supplying health literature and referring congregants to supportive health services where appropriate. Also, the parish nurse maintains an active visitation program to parishioners who are homebound, hospitalized or in nursing homes. Currently, there are dozens of churches in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia that are serviced by the Ballad Health parish nurse program. JMH funded $8,178 for this program. Ballad Healths Enterprise Call Center is a toll-free line that connects community members with experienced nurses around the clock. The nurses provide expert medical advice anytime, day or night, make referrals to a new primary care provider with a location and hours convenient to the community member and referrals to a physician specialist when they need advanced local medical care. They also provide health information and resources, including health screenings, immunizations, and make referrals to urgent care clinics to see a doctor near the community member the same day. JMH funded $20,113 toward this popular service during FY19.People struggle with having enough to eat throughout the year. Ballad Health hosted a food drive to support Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee and Feeding America of Southwest Virginia. The drive coincided with National Food Bank Day on September 7th, but our drive continued until September 30th. Donation bins were located at JMHs HR department to collect food items to be donated to our partner agencies who operate food pantries and to individuals and families through some of our direct service programs like the Mobile Food Pantry and Senior Grocery Program.In FY19, Ballad Health made a major change regarding air ambulance services. Ballad selected Med-Trans, locally known as Wings Air Rescue, to continue to operate four full-time bases in Elizabethton, TN, Greeneville, TN, Jenkins, KY and Marion, VA plus a base at Bristol Motor Speedway, which is active during race events. Licensed in Tennessee, Ballad Health One air ambulance provides transport of critically ill and injured patients to one of the closest tertiary hospitals in the region. We also provided staffing, physicians, and medical supplies to the Commonwealth of Virginia for the Virginia State Polices Med Flight air ambulance service. VSP Med Flight will continue to maintain its base in Abingdon, VA. JMHs contribution for the air ambulance services that are especially critical in rural areas was $75,773.Rural hospitals are struggling and our communities are not as healthy as they could be. Ballad Health was created specifically to address the most critical healthcare needs of communities in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. Ballad has made commitments that include the investment of $75 million over 10 years to improve population health needs with a focus on some of the most serious threats to our regions health, like diabetes and infant mortality. Ballad Health established a new department, Population Health, during FY19 to focus on the needs. JMH invested $92,977 toward this initiative that supplements the many other forms of community benefit provided by our health systems hospitals. Health Professions Education:The idea of an internal medicine program at JMH was sparked by the acknowledged physician shortage in Southwest Virginia. The JMH residency program welcomed its fourth class of 11 residents this year. Thirty-three residents are currently in training at JMH, 17 in family medicine and 16 in internal medicine. The JMH family medicine residency program and the internal medicine program are committed to providing advanced, innovative, and specialized training in osteopathic family medicine and internal medicine. Upon completion of residency training, JMH physicians will be well prepared to serve the community by practicing comprehensive family medicine or internal medicine and caring for diverse populations. There is a national shortage of family medicine doctors. The Association of American Medical Colleges recently predicted a shortage of nearly 100,000 p |
| Form 990, Part VI, Line 15 b - Compensation Process for Officers | Similar to JMH/APP's CEO, JMH/APP's CFO receives compensation that complieswith Ballad Health's salary policy. His pay is set at a market percentilespecific to his position as CFO of JMH and APP. Key employee Bryan Mullins,JMH COO, is not a Vice-President or in a senior leadership position,therefore his compensation and benefits are consistent with other JMH non-executive positions. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a - Compensation Process for Top Official | On an annual basis, Ballad Health's Human Resources (H/R) Department evaluates compensation for all executives at a position level of Assistant Vice President and above. The review includes JMH/APP's CEO. H/R's evaluation is based on market data obtained from independent third-party consultants for positions with similar responsibilities at similarly situated organizations. Based on this comparable data, Ballad Health's President & CEO evaluates the data and submits his recommendations to Ballad Health's Board of Directors for their final review and approval. In addition, Ballad Health offers an incentive plan to executives based on targeted achievement metrics set in advance of the pay year. Established metrics include: quality and access measures, evidence-based care scores, and value based purchasing, etc. |
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