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2010–2012 · never compressed into "closed"
Madison Center did not "close" on any single day, and this article keeps its end in the three separate dated events the record gives. First, the designation was lost: by a release of September 7, 2010, the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration's Division of Mental Health and Addiction terminated Madison's managed-care provider contract by mutual agreement, and effective 5 p.m., September 24, 2010, Oaklawn Psychiatric Center became the designated community mental health centre for St. Joseph County, "assuming all the state-required duties and responsibilities previously provided by Madison Center." Oaklawn leased space in Madison's own buildings to keep the outpatient services running, and the release is explicit that inpatient services at Madison were not affected by the change. The wind-down around that date was already running: Madison's children's residential programme was emptied by January 4, 2010, its children going in part to Oaklawn's 70-bed residential programme in Elkhart County, and in 2010 Madison shut its outlying clinics in the three surrounding counties, whose roughly 500 clients were taken on by Oaklawn, the Bowen Center and the Swanson Center. Second, the sale: in March 2011 Memorial Hospital of South Bend purchased Madison Center's inpatient assets — approximately 90 beds — and reopened them as the Memorial Epworth Center, pledging in early 2011 to provide psychiatric services at the former Madison Center properties on Niles Avenue; the inpatient house Madison had run since the campus era thereby passed to the county's general-hospital system, where it remains. Third, the closure: in 2012, in the county's own facility history's plain words, "Madison Center closed due to financial strain." Its last service threads into Portage Manor were picked up the same year — inpatient needs absorbed by Memorial Epworth as the primary house, outpatient services assumed by Oaklawn, including the weekly on-site psychiatrist at the manor. Designation lost September 24, 2010; inpatient assets sold March 2011; the corporation closed 2012. Three events, three dates, three different successors.
Sources: Madison Center / Oaklawn joint release, September 7, 2010 (the contract termination and the September 24, 2010 designation transfer; inpatient unaffected); South Bend Tribune, December 2009 (the children's residential wind-down to January 4, 2010), via the Michiana Business Review Library file; South Bend Tribune, 2010, "Madison Center shuts outlying sites" (the three clinics, the roughly 500 clients, the receiving centres); Memorial Hospital of South Bend institutional record and Beacon Health System, July 13, 2021 (the March 2011 purchase of the inpatient assets, approximately 90 beds, the Memorial Epworth Center); St. Joseph County Home timeline (the 2012 closure and its succession at Portage Manor).