BOST Responds to State PLAN to CUT Services at Choate Mental Health Center in ANNA

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Mike Bost (IL-12) today denounced plans for the Illinois Department of Human Services to significantly downsize operations at the Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center in Anna. The facility's intellectual and developmental disabilities general units will close by September 30 th , with its 75 civil mental health beds phased down by March 2027 . The Choate campus will only have a 40-bed developmental disabilities unit and state administrative offices remaining . "For three years , we were promised a transformation for the people at the Choate facility; instead, they received a layoff notice or a ticket out of town," said Bost . " The state is cutting jobs and resources that our region can’t spare, uprooting patients’ lives, and leaving families and employees to pick up the pieces . I couldn’t be more disappointed in the state’s decision to slash operations at Choate, rather than investing in its future. " ###