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Article: Candidate to be `voice for health care'
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- The News Sun - Waukegan (IL)
- Article date:
- February 28, 2004
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Joyce Washington says there is a need in the U.S. Senate for a person dedicated to the health care issue.
As a health care professional for the last 25 years, Washington said, she is qualified to be that person.
"This is the No. 1 domestic policy issue," she said during a recent interview. "I'll bring that hands-on experience to the issue."
Washington's career began as a young emergency room nurse in Georgia. She also served at a military hospital in the United States during the Vietnam War.
After obtaining a master's degree, she oversaw 20 long-term care facilities in the Midwest. She was CEO of two Chicago hospitals before creating the consulting business she currently operates.
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