County nursing home loan receives OK

URBANA – The Champaign County Board voted to lend the county nursing home $775,000 Thursday night, then spent more than an hour fighting over an ordinance change necessary to fund the loan.

The Democratic caucus came out charging against problems with the nursing home – hit with a $600,000 Medicaid cut and higher nursing costs – that would require the county, financially strapped in its own right, to make the loan.

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