State: Private company to run children's facility
Source: By SUSAN M. COVER, Blethen Maine News Service (ME), January 12, 2008
AUGUSTA -- Most of the state jobs that the governor's supplemental budget would eliminate come from a facility in Bangor that would be taken over by a private company, state officials said Friday.
The Elizabeth Levinson Center, which opened in 1971, serves children who are severely mentally disabled by providing them with residential and medical services.
After a company takes over the operation, 43 state jobs would be eliminated, said Brenda Harvey, commissioner of the state Department of Health and Human Services.