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Heritage Preservation, in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a U. S. federal agency, produced The Heritage Health Index.

The results of this work was the report A Public Trust at Risk: The Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America's Collections, which was published in December 2005 and concluded that immediate action is needed to prevent the loss of 190 million artifacts that are in need of conservation treatment.

The report made four recommendations: