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The centre's end, as three separate dated events

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2010–2011 · SOUTH BEND (BOUNDARY)

The row forbids compressing this end into “closed,” and the record supports three distinct events. Event one — designation lost / contract ended, 24 September 2010. Effective 5 p.m., 24 September 2010, by mutual agreement, Madison Center's managed-care provider contract with the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, was terminated, simultaneous with Oaklawn's new agreement with the State (art-57-8). Madison's outpatient clinics outside South Bend were shut in the same 2010 course, their roughly 500 clients directed to Oaklawn, the Bowen Center, the Swanson Center, or Madison's own South Bend campus, where Oaklawn leased two buildings to continue community-based services. Event two — the inpatient sale, March 2011. In March 2011 Memorial Hospital of South Bend purchased Madison Center's inpatient assets — approximately 90 beds — and began an inpatient psychiatry programme for adults and children in the former Madison properties on Niles Avenue, the Memorial Epworth Center; inpatient services at Madison had expressly not been affected by the September 2010 designation change, which is why the sale is a second event and not a footnote to the first.

Event three — the working closure of the Madison organisation on its ground, from early 2011. Memorial pledged in early 2011 to provide psychiatric services at the former Madison Center properties, and its ten-year retrospective (July 2021) describes the course that followed: older Madison Center buildings closed, others upgraded, more than 10,000 patients a year served at Memorial's Epworth facilities. A separate, precise corporate dissolution date for Madison Center Inc. was not established from open sources and is not asserted; the children's-centre name (Madison Center for Children, 701 N. Niles Ave.) persists in directories as a programme listing, printed as a directory survival, not as proof the designated centre continued. Three events, three dates — 24 Sept. 2010, March 2011, and the 2011 building course — stand separately, as the row requires.

Sources: PR Newswire / Madison Center–Oaklawn announcement, 7 Sept. 2010 (designation effective 24 Sept. 2010, 5 p.m.; inpatient unaffected; Oaklawn lease); South Bend Tribune reporting (2010) on the outlying-clinic closures and ~500 clients; Memorial Hospital / Beacon Health, Epworth ten-year retrospective (13 July 2021) and Memorial Hospital history (March 2011 inpatient-asset purchase, ~90 beds).

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Source: The centre's end, as three separate dated events, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/osceola/mental-health-institutions/centre-s-end-as-three-separate-dated-events/