Counties are continuing nursing home services
Several times over the past few weeks The Northwestern said that Park View Health Center should be privatized. The claim was made that most other counties were going out of the nursing home business and Winnebago County should too. Since 1986 only five counties have gone out of the nursing home business. Since 1993, 10 counties have built new facilities and one has extensively remodeled its existing home. As of September 1, 2005, there were 401 county homes. Given these facts it would appear that rather than going out of business most counties intend to continue in the nursing home business for a long, long time.
http://www.wisinfo.com/northwestern/news/opinion/stories/opinion_23201007.shtml
There was a great forum at the library recently on County-Owned Nursing Homes - it was too bad the Northwestern didn't make it there.
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