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7 – 24 September 2010
The handover was announced on 7 September 2010 and took effect at 5 p.m. on 24 September 2010, and its structure was agreement, not collapse. By mutual agreement, the managed-care provider contract between the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration's Division of Mental Health and Addiction and Madison Center would terminate simultaneously with a new agreement with Oaklawn Psychiatric Center, Inc., which would become the designated Community Mental Health Center for St. Joseph County, "assuming all the state-required duties and responsibilities previously provided by Madison." Oaklawn would lease space at Madison to continue the community-based services, the transition structured to be essentially seamless for patients, employees and both medical staffs; inpatient services at Madison were not affected by the change. When Oaklawn assumed the St. Joseph County outpatient services and two buildings in South Bend, more than 200 new staff and thousands of new clients were added to the organization, on Oaklawn's own history. For a North Liberty resident, the dated fact is the whole story: from the evening of 24 September 2010, the designated centre behind the county's provision has been Oaklawn.