Controversial state-run care center to stay open
Source: By Joe Mahr, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH (MO), 03/14/2007
Reversing course, Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt now wants to keep open a state-run center for mentally retarded and developmentally disabled residents. But he wants to reduce its caseload and privatize much of its staff. Blunt's latest plan for the Bellefontaine Habilitation Center was met with a lukewarm response from residents' relatives, who say the state is still shirking its duty to care for their loved ones.
…… A parents' group at the center and the union representing workers fought the plan to close the facility, arguing that the past problems of abuse had been adequately addressed.