Choate to Downsize Patient Capacity, Send Beds Upstate

State to lay off hundreds at troubled southern Illinois mental health facility – Capitol News IL

According to the letter, IDHS plans to cease operations for the intellectual and developmental disabilities general units by Sept. 30. The department will also “phase down” 75 civil mental health beds at Choate while adding beds to the Madden Mental Health Center in Chicago.

Pritzker administration to lay off workers, reduce operations at downstate Choate facility

Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration is significantly reducing staffing at a long-troubled downstate center for people with mental health issues and developmental disabilities, state and union officials said Thursday.

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* WSIU… The Illinois Department of Human Services has announced major changes at Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center in Anna. In a letter to staff dated Thursday, the agency outlined plans to reduce residential units serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and to phase down mental‑health beds. Forensic developmental‑disability operations will continue at the facility. * Excerpts [...]

Choate to downsize patient capacity, send beds upstate

ANNA — Employees at Choate Developmental Center in Anna received a letter on Thursday detailing plans to downsize the facility’s mental health services in the coming months.

IDHS announces significant reductions at downstate mental health facility

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