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“Frankly, I don’t know what’s going to happen to the people they stop serving, and that’s my biggest concern. I’m very interested to find out what the department’s plan is to do with these people when the providers can’t serve them, because there’s no place else for them to go now, nor would we want them to go back to the institutions.”
– Judith Goodwin, executive director of Oklahoma Community-Based Providers, which represents 60 agencies which serve 6,000 to 10,000 clients, speaking about a 3.5 percent provider reimbursement rate cut. Care providers have warned that they will have to cut wages and stop providing some services, leaving some Oklahomans with disabilities without a source of needed care (Source)
