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🌱 Hiawatha clinic plans independent reopening after medical network collapses
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- Hiawatha clinic plans independent reopening after medical network collapses
Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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📰 News we're reading
• Cedar Valley Medical Specialists announces sudden closure (thegazette.com) — Ascent Integrated Specialists says its Hiawatha clinic will reopen as an independent practice after Cedar Valley Medical Specialists abruptly closed Oct. 30. The wider network shut down when it could no longer pay employees amid a debt dispute with Farmers State Bank, leaving providers working to preserve patient care. 
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- Cedar Rapids school board elects new leadership, reviews district finances (cbs2iowa.com)
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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