Aaron Collins

I think my answer is really simple.

I think the first thing I think about is professional for me.

I worry about the people that we serve at our FQHC that without us otherwise don't get the care or resources that they need.

I think about people who sleep outside, who maybe are dependent on substances and will not have the resources they need to

live a safe life without this FQHC.

And I worry with some of the cuts that have happened and are continuing to happen and people are saying are going to happen,

We'll take those resources away.

I know my organization has already been affected by some of the grant cuts, one being the traditional health program.

So a lot of the funding that funds the cultural things that we do at the clinic are no longer.

They lost a few positions in that.

And then the maternal and child health program is also no longer.

So anybody who is employed under the maternal child health grants that were given to the state by the federal government, and then the state obviously had to cease those programs, um,

we don't have a maternal child health program anymore.

We don't have an OB case manager anymore.

And so the 27 women that are pregnant at our clinic are going to see a disruption in their continuity of care and their care coordination and like the overall satisfaction of the care that they're getting because we don't have those positions anymore.

And the money is just gone.

It's not any notice.

Hey, your money's going to go away May 1st.

No, it's gone effective today.

There's nothing we can do about it.