The state developmental center in Redfield will get a lot of attention this summer. The Executive Board of the Legislature has set up a sub-committee headed by Senator Jean Hunhoff, to look at the operations of the center. Hunhoff says there will also be a couple of studies done by the Department of Social Services, who over sees the center…[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/05/Jean-Hunhoff-503a.mp3|titles=Jean Hunhoff 503a]
Hunhoff says their committee will wait for the social services study to finish…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/05/Jean-Hunhoff-503b.mp3|titles=Jean Hunhoff 503b]Hunhoff says this year’s studies all spring from meetings they held about the Redfield center last summer…
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At its peak, around 12-hundred patients were being served on the Redfield campus back in 1963.
(courtesy WNAX Yankton)