State drug-funding budget cuts mean layoffs, program cuts
By Mary Schenk
Wednesday July 30, 2008
URBANA – Local emergency rooms will likely find more drug addicts and alcoholics in distress at their doors in the wake of Illinois budget cuts that have trickled down to East Central Illinois.
Bruce Suardini, chief executive officer of Prairie Center Health Systems Inc., said at a news conference Wednesday that Thursday will be the last day its detox unit in downtown Champaign will accept new admissions.
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