State Facility Scheduled to Close This Week
Posted on: Monday, 13 February 2006, 12:01 CST
APPLE CREEK -- Another state home will shut its doors this week, and the fate of Ohio's 10 remaining institutions that treat mentally retarded and developmentally disabled patients remains in question.
Apple Creek Developmental Center, near Wooster in rural Wayne County, has been relocating its residents to other centers in anticipation of Saturday's closing. Gov. Bob Taft decided in 2003 to close Apple Creek, along with the Springview Developmental Center in Springfield, which closed last year, to save $23 million a year.
Families, guardians and advocates of the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled opposed the decision.
It still upsets Roy Miller, 82, who was forced to remove his daughter, Nancy, from Apple Creek, where she had lived for 23 years. Nancy Miller was born with Sturge-Weber syndrome, an incurable neurological disorder.
"The state of Ohio takes better care of a murderer than a handicapped child," the father said recently.
He and his wife, Frances, have placed their daughter with five other women in a group home near Akron.
The debate over these institutions will intensify as the Ohio Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities drafts a blueprint to possibly close or consolidate some of its 10 remaining centers.
A $116,000 state-commissioned report released last month said reducing the number of state institutions would allow the agency to shift services to community-based programs, following a 30-year national trend. The report did not recommend specific centers for closure or say how many should close.
Source: Cincinnati Post
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