Thanks, Sarah.
Thank you for having us here today.
The one piece on supporting business is that the polytechnic model of research is really partner-driven and responsive to industry. We have members across the country working with health care providers and health care organizations to ensure that they're automating and basically being an onboard to the business innovation that's required to propel those businesses to move forward.
On the one hand, our member institutions across the country are providing the education and training for the human capital that's required for the caring economy. On the other side of the equation, the research arm of our member institutions, through the applied research office, is really supporting business to onboard new technologies, whether they be digital or simulated learning, as Sarah said, to ensure that these health care organizations from the private sector are also being moved forward along their innovation journey.
From that perspective, there is one federal program, the college and community innovation program, that explicitly funds college and polytechnic applied research. Increasing support for this program, for example, would certainly amplify at scale the amount of research that our members are able to do with the health care and caring economy writ large.