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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
DOVER—The budget-writing Joint Finance Committee balked Monday at an administration proposal to close Emily P. Bissell Hospital and Gov. Bacon Health Center, a move that would have saved the state $1 million next year.
Patients from the two state-run nursing homes would have been moved to the Delaware Hospital for the Chronically Ill in Smyrna, which would have undergone a hurried renovation to accommodate them.
Similar proposals have surfaced and been roundly rejected by legislators since the 1990s—and Monday was no exception.
Although no formal vote was taken, the legislators made it clear they were having no part of it, and they told budget officials to look elsewhere in the Department of Health and Social Services for cost savings.
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