The centre's end, as three dated events — not one

AUDIT ROW #298 · SEPTEMBER 24, 2010 · 2011 · THE SUCCESSOR'S CONTINUING PRESENCE

Madison Center did not simply "close"; its end was three separate events in three separate years' records, and this section prints them separately, as the checklist requires. First, the designation was lost: effective 5 p.m. on September 24, 2010, Oaklawn became the designated community mental health centre for St. Joseph County, Madison's state contract terminated by mutual agreement; Oaklawn leased space at Madison, assumed two South Bend buildings, and took on more than two hundred of Madison's staff [joint Madison/Oaklawn release, September 7, 2010]. Second, the campus changed hands and use: in early 2011 Memorial Hospital took the former Madison Center properties on Niles Avenue, South Bend, as the Memorial Epworth Center and Hospital — a hospital succeeding a mental-health centre on its own ground, still serving more than ten thousand patients a year at its ten-year mark in July 2021 [Beacon Health System]. Third, the successor stayed: Oaklawn's South Bend outpatient presence continues at 415 East Madison Street, on the lost centre's own street. What did not happen in any of the three records is a Walkerton event: the town's part in the centre's end is the loss of a designation on a map it was drawn inside of in 1949, and the leg prints the end at that stated strength — county-scale, dated three ways, with Madison's remaining corporate residue (what the nonprofit still was after 2010) carried as a named gap under the corporate record, not guessed at.

Principal sources: joint Madison Center/Oaklawn release, September 7, 2010 (the September 24, 2010 designation transfer, the lease, the two buildings, the 200-plus staff); Beacon Health System (Memorial Epworth Center, 2011; ten-year mark, July 2021); Oaklawn (South Bend outpatient, 415 E. Madison St.); settler named — Madison Center corporate record (post-2010 residue).