County Offers Nursing Home Complex; Move Could Bring More Than 85 Jobs
RISON - Cleveland County and Millcreek of Arkansas have reached an agreement that would allow the youth services agency to use the county-owned nursing home facility at Rison for a new program that could bring about 85 or more jobs to the area.
The Cleveland County Quorum Court unanimously approved a motion during its regular monthly meeting Monday night to draft a resolution supporting Millcreek’s efforts to work with the state in establishing a new youth program at the Rison facility.
That resolution will likely be on the agenda for the April quorum court meeting.
Joy G. Figarsky, the chief executive officer of Ascent Children’s Health Services in Jonesboro, and Matt Wiltshire, the CEO of Millcreek of Arkansas at Fordyce, gave the quorum court and representatives from the City of Rison an overview what to expect from the facility and answered any concerns they might have about the proposal.
Ascent and Millcreek are both subsidiaries of Youth and Family Centered Services, Inc. based in Austin, Texas.
Figarsky said they are unsure at this time as to what kind of program might be located at Rison since the state Department of Human Services would have a major influence on that.
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