Please do not make permanent the extensive, burdensome requirements for clinic buildings that are unrelated to the services health centers provide and have no proven medical benefit will reduce or eliminate patient access to health care.  The regulations will increase the financial hurdles to health care for patients, with no proven medical benefit to patients. Women need more access to affordable, high quality health care, not less! 

Medically inappropriate and unnecessarily burdensome regulations restrict access to essential health care services for the women of Virginia and further marginalize young, low-income, uninsured and minority women by decreasing their health care options.  During difficult economic times, this decision will put further pressure on Virginia's health care system, which will move the state in the WRONG direction. 

It is my hope that the regulations will be amended to be based purely on medicine and science and should not impede women's access to essential health care. 

Thank you for your consideration of this feedback.