Mahoning County Adult Day Services program to move to Austintown

AUSTINTOWN — Mahoning County health officials expect to move their Adult Day Services program from the South Side Annex to a facility near the health department offices on Westchester Drive by Labor Day.

The county plans to close the annex, 2801 Market St., Youngstown, in September, after its last three occupants move to Oakhill Renaissance Place and other county locations.

The county health board is looking forward to moving the program, primarily because it will enable expansion, said Patricia Sweeney, health commissioner.

“We are within a good work area that might provide opportunities for more private-pay clients,” she said.

Sweeney said there are a lot of working families that have responsibilities for elderly or disabled family members who have no respite and the move to Austintown might give them that opportunity in a facility that provides healthy, age-appropriate activities and good friendships in a supervised situation.

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