TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — The governor’s budget has proposed closing two facilities for adults with developmental disabilities. But only one of those centers remains under threat in the proposed state budgets released this week by the House and the Senate.
The Rainier School that houses about 370 adults on a campus in Buckley is not targeted in either the Senate or House budget released Tuesday. But the smaller Francis Haddon Morgan Center in Bellingham is threatened in the Senate budget.
Supporters say the closures would integrate patients in communities instead of having them live on campuses set apart from the rest of society. Opponents say the closure will rip residents away from a homes where they have lived for decades and away from the care they need.
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Information from: The News Tribune, http://www.thenewstribune.com
