about my staffing, today harris health system, my hospitals, we are over 250 nurses short. they're not all critical area emergency room intensive care units operating room nurses. all in all, 254 nurses short. we have more than 140 nurses from agencies that are working in my hospitals right now. just this morning i was quoted a price for an agency nurse of $286 an hour. what is happening is that because of the extensive nursing short damage, not just in my system but across the country, the agency nurses unfortunately are able to name their price. and hospitals are left with no options. other than to fork out the money and get the nurses that we need to take care of our patients. you know, our nurses, our staff are also part of the community. we talked about the number of