Following up on this previous Cheat Sheet Post on possibly one of the last public input opportunities on the Champaign County Nursing Home in the process of being sold. The hearing was for public input for a State level review board that has to give its additional approval for the County approved sale to continue. The News-Gazette had coverage of that hearing last week:
Proponents, opponents of nursing home sale put comments on recordAdditional information, including some of the arguments made for and against the sale, at the full article here. Champaign County Health Care Consumers, which opposes the sale to this sole bidder had an informational page for folks wishing to attend the hearing here. The arguments for the sale are covered fairly well in the article, but there is additional information at our Nursing Home page for a deep dive into the issues surrounding it.
If Champaign County can't sell its financially strapped nursing home soon, the home will have to be closed, a state board was warned.
Some former and current county officials and local business leaders came to a public hearing Thursday in downtown Champaign urging that a planned $11 million sale of the nursing home be allowed to proceed, while a handful of opponents continued to express doubts about selling to the only taker.
The hearing was called to collect public comments for the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board, which will have the final say about the nursing home sale next month.
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