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… of Juneteenth and What the IHP is Doing to Improve Healthcare Dear IHP Community, For the third time in our history, our country on June 19 is celebrating Juneteenth as a federal holiday. For us, this is the first year that MGB has recognized this new holiday with a vacation day for all its employees.  … troops arrived in Galveston Texas and announced that all enslaved people in the state were freed by executive decree, that everyone in the country finally learned of …