[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 85 (Tuesday, May 21, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H4053]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   CONGRATULATING DR. DEBBIE LUPEIKA

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, I rise today to congratulate a great 
woman and a doctor who is from my district in northern California, who 
earned an incredible honor over the weekend.
  Dr. Debbie Lupeika has been named as the 2019 National Clinician of 
the year by the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved.
  She teaches residents at Mercy Medical Center in Redding, California, 
and Shasta Community Health Center, which serves mostly underserved or 
uninsured patients.
  Dr. Lupeika has helped treat many families that were displaced from 
their homes in Shasta County by the Carr fire last year--everyone from 
children to adults.
  In rural communities like ours, it is even more important to have 
great doctors who truly care about their patients and their craft when 
also faced with these rural issues that are so difficult for retaining 
doctors in rural areas. Dr. Debbie Lupeika fully embodies that in every 
way.
  Madam Speaker, I thank her for her commitment to improving healthcare 
in our rural communities, and I congratulate her on receiving this 
prestigious award.

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