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Bridget's Path warns loss of $1M infant-vitality line would force program cuts and closures
Summary
Bridget's Path, a licensed residential infant care center for substance-exposed newborns, told the committee that removal of a $1 million line in HB 96 would make the program unsustainable, force a 50% operational reduction and could push newborns into NICUs and foster care.
Jill Kingston, founder and president of Bridget's Path, testified that the Senate's elimination of a $1,000,000 line item in the Department of Children and Youth's infant vitality funding would undercut the legislature's prior directive and make her Dayton-based residential infant care center financially unsustainable. "Without the funding, Bridget's Path quite literally cannot stay open," Kingston said.
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