Interior Community Health Center will close the satellite medical clinic it operates in Healy as of Nov. 1.

ICHC made the announcement in a paid display advertisement in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner on Wednesday. The ad printed ICHC’s press release about the closure. The Fairbanks-based health center ran the satellite clinic in Healy for 23 years at the Tri-Valley Community Center.

It wasn’t always a happy collaboration.

During a two-hour contentious community meeting in Healy in May, there seemed to be only one point everyone in the room could agree on — that the medical clinic in Healy needs a full-time medical provider.

The meeting, held in the Aurora Room of the Aurora Denali Lodge in Healy, was limited to only 50 people. Consequently, a number of people were turned away due to c

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