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Voices of Detroit Initiative

POSTED: May 12, 2011, 12:00 am

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Jenny Gold, correspondent for the Kaiser Health News Service, interviews Dr. Herbert Smitherman of the Voices of Detroit Initiative.





Source: Kaiser Health News Service





This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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