I am thankful to have the opportunity to appear before you once again in this committee and I am glad that I can provide you with some progress that we've made on those hires since the last time I appeared before this committee.
In my previous speaking address on March 4, we shared with you that we had 29 letters of offer out, 18 hires, and 11 conditional offers. As of yesterday that has increased to 46 letters of offer that have gone out, 27 mental health practitioners have been hired, 10 offers have been accepted, but they're pending conditions to be met such as medical or security clearances. Nine have declined.
We had a gap of 54 hires to do. We are now only down to 17 positions. We are currently doing staffing actions to finish those other 17 positions. So far with our rate we're having an 80% acceptance rate for our letters of offer that we get out.