Planned Parenthood groups pool efforts
By Amy F. Reiter
Friday March 21, 2008
CHAMPAIGN – The red brick building's still there. The people and the services within it are largely the same. But Planned Parenthood of East Central Illinois is no more.
The organization's five Illinois affiliates – in Decatur, Springfield, Peoria and Chicago – have joined the East Central Illinois organization to form Planned Parenthood of Illinois, a move administrators hope will give the organization a stronger voice in policy-making, more uniform services with less duplicate paperwork, and money saved, by having fewer administrators, that can go toward meeting rising health care costs without cutting services.
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