Regional care company to close

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Community Health Partnership Inc., a long-term care organization based in Eau Claire, is set to close at the end of the year.

As a result, the clients who receive state Family Care and Family Care Partnership program services through CHP in St. Croix, Pierce, Dunn, Chippewa and Eau Claire counties will have to shift to a new provider.

The Eau Claire-based nonprofit has been on the hot seat for a couple years, after a state-ordered audit of the state’s five managed care organizations indicated that CHP was in serious financial trouble.

This summer CHP, which provides services for about 2,700 frail elderly clients and adults with physical and developmental disabilities in the five-county area, sent a letter to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services indicating they could no longer afford to provide services to its Family Care clients.

CHP’s 360 employees received notice of the planned closure at meetings held on Sept. 10 and 11. Besides its Eau Claire office, CHP operates branch offices in River Falls, Menomonie and Chippewa Falls.

For more please read the Sept. 26 print version of the Herald.

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