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-It is 4:25 A.M. [ Laughs ]
-Greetings. Welcome.
-Thank you. -We're glad you're here.
Okay, we're about to start handing out tickets,
so please get in your seats.
-Dental very expensive, and did it last year.
Didn't finish everything, so it's free here.
-Uh, for the medical.
-Free dental is my number one reason.
Even with insurance. Dental is very expensive,
and I have a tooth that might need to be pulled or extracted.
And so this will get it taken care of.
-Even though I need vision, I'm just going to wait to see
how much it is with my Medicare. -Good morning.
-We have a 5 A.M. check-in time
for the first shifts of volunteers that include
both general support and a lot of nurses,
and it's really about getting the first part
of the process staffed.
So down there, patient intake nurses
will start getting trained.
Up here at patient registration,
they'll start training them on the patient
registration system.
-Once you turn on your computer, this is what you'll see.
-The interpreters will be here
and they'll start getting trained on their process
to prepare for us to open doors at 6:30.
-Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to open the doors.
Are we good? Here we go.
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-[ Speaking in Spanish ]
-Three, four. -Four.
-We've handed out 432 of the 550 dental tickets
that we have allocated for today.
We've handed out 233 of the 300 vision tickets
we've allocated for today, and 43 of the medical only tickets.
So we're in good shape at 7:09 A.M.
So 30 minutes after having started admitting people.
-Everything is here and it's for anybody.
You can have a job, you can have insurance,
you can have neither of those things.
And when you're in here, everybody treats you
like you're a person.
-Welcome. We're glad you're here.
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