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2 Oklahoma care homes will drop 80 workers next week

 
BY VALLERY BROWN    Comment on this article Leave a comment
Published: February 26, 2010

About 80 employees at state homes for the mentally disabled will be notified next week their jobs have been eliminated, officials with the Department of Human Services said.

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The homes are the only remaining state-operated centers considered to be Intermediate Care Facilities for the Mentally Retarded.

Northern Oklahoma Resource Center in Enid and Southern Oklahoma Resource Center in Pauls Valley provide care and housing to about 280 residents with mental disabilities, mobility problems and trouble feeding and caring for themselves.

Sheree Powell, a spokeswoman with the DHS Developmental Disabilities Services Division, said the division is facing a $34.6 million deficit.

About 260 positions were targeted for removal this fiscal year out of nearly 1,000 jobs. So

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