Eteva, the local authority group providing disability services, transfers its activities to the welfare regions

In the middle of the row houses, a small yard with trees and bushes with yellow and red leaves. In the middle is a children's playground with a swing, a sandbox and crabs on a climbing frame. — Eteva also provides sophisticated services. The picture shows the yard of the Lahti psychiatric unit for the mentally disabled in autumn 2022.

The change will affect 1 350 employees and almost 1 700 customers. Services will remain unchanged at the turn of the year.

At the turn of the year, Eteva’s activities will be transferred to the welfare regions. Eteva has long provided services for people with disabilities in Uusimaa, Kanta-Häme and Päijät-Häme. Eteva has, among other things, housing units, and its largest areas of operation are Central Uusimaa and Western Uusimaa.

In Päijät-Häme, Eteva has two farms in Nastola and Orimattila, Lahti. In Kanta-Häme, the group has a four-house group home centre in Janakkala and four group homes, a terraced house and a day care unit in Hämeenlinna.

Eteva’s demanding services have been kept as a single entity, so they are organised under the HUS Group. The demanding services include, for example, psychiatric units for the mentally handicapped in Lahti, Hämeenlinna and Kerava.

All transferred services will remain unchanged when the welfare areas start operating at the beginning of the year. Owned by 45 municipalities, Eteva has approximately 1,350 employees and nearly 1,700 customers.