From the Herald-Leader:
Joseph Toy, president and CEO of the Bluegrass Mental Health-Mental Retardation Board, is retiring.
In an e-mail Toy sent Friday to staff at the Communities at Oakwood and Eastern State Hospital, he said he would continue working for two to four months to allow the board time to appoint a successor.
In addition to running Eastern State in Lexington and Oakwood in Somerset, Bluegrass provides community mental-health services and other social services.
Toy's retirement comes as Bluegrass is under pressure to fix problems at Oakwood, a historically troubled institution, so the facility can regain funding from Medicaid.
All but $18 million of Oakwood's $78 million annual budget normally comes from Medicaid. Until the facility is found in compliance by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the state is paying for the full cost of running the institution.
(Image courtesy Somerset Commonwealth Journal)
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