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andthat would be like one potential use, as well as some of the kids coming out of Kapiolani, you know, and part of that whole kind of like debriefing after surgery and before theyre off to maybe a different island. Is that kind of -? LINTON:Its as close as an analogy as we have, but the services that World Healing Institute provides is a little bit more enhanced than that. Right now our partners where the actual care is provided include Tripler Army Medical Center. We are also talking with Kapiolani because they specialize in childrens services as well. Our partners are the ones that actually provide the care. And what we do is we help to provide the case finding for the children and then in the -. Lets say the children were going to have a surgical procedure done that needed the facilities like Tripler or Kapiolani, what we would do is we would help to arrange for the children and their mothers to come here to be in Hawaii. We would then make sure theyre acclimated, maybe pre-surgery, we would help provide them with a variety of services really to -. Its not care in the traditional sense. It would be what I would call mind-body or holistic type of carewherewereworkingwiththemtopreparethemforsurgerywithnutrition,withnature experiences, and getting them used to our staff so that were building relationships with them. And then our partners take over when they actually have to do the surgery, so that the children and their mothers would have actually been in Tripler or on Oahu for anywhere from a week up to many weeks because these are more intense surgeries. Once they have recovered and are ready for discharge, instead of going to a home situation, then they come back to our facility where we again have a trained staff and volunteers that are again providing more of a recovery type of service using, again, nature-based experiences, it could be the expressive arts, the creative arts, various mind-body techniques, nutrition, holistic care of that nature. But none of that, and then after a period of a few weeks, post-operatively, then we send them home; and theyve had a tremendous experience in that. So its a little bit different. But in terms of category of care, Ronald McDonald House is very close in terms of the next closest analogy. ALAMEDA:Thank you. SPRINGER:Commissioners, other questions for the applicant or for Mr. Linton? IWASHITAI have one. SPRINGER:Commissioner Iwashita. IWASHITA:Mr. Linton, so from what you described, are you regulated in any way by any State or Federal agency? LINTON:No. We have, of course, both in the state of Virginia and the state of Hawaii, weve investigated that very closely. But because we are not directly providing a licensed service or a licensed type of care, we do not fall under a regulatory category. And we have checked that out very, very thoroughly with the Department and other appropriate agencies so, just to make sure of that. Again, with, if our children do need that, that is provided by a licensed provider through an association arrangement that we have with them; and it would fall under their license. But the types of services we provide are not a licensed service, its basically a convalescent. 5