(Warsaw, IN) - A nursing home operator familiar to area families is downsizing.

Miller’s Merry Manor will be transferring ownership of eight of its facilities statewide. This will not affect the facilities in La Porte, New Carlisle, or Walkerton.

Miller’s Health Systems, Inc. says the change has to do with changes in the operating leases at those eight locations.

Miller’s runs about 30 senior care facilities throughout Indiana. Nearly 700 workers stand to be affected by the downsizing. However, most, if not all of them, are expected to keep their jobs under new management.