County one step closer to selling Sunny Ridge / Sends letter of intent to firm that made offer
Source: By Jennifer Kuszynski, Sheboygan Press (WI), November 21, 2006
Sheboygan County is one step closer to getting out of the nursing home business at one of two facilities it owns. The county Health Care Centers Committee voted Monday to send a letter of intent to Health Dimensions Group of Minneapolis, a firm that submitted the only proposal to purchase the county-owned Sunny Ridge Health Care and Rehabilitation Center in September, said chairman Michael Vandersteen. The county put the facility up for sale in June after years of ballooning red ink. ……. For some Sunny Ridge employees, the lack of answers is frustrating. "We're being left in the dark," said Scott Doro, president of AFSCME Local 2427, one of the unions that represents employees of the county's health-care facilities