Healthcare

Michelle Stephens | Chair, TSET Board of Directors

Michelle Stephens | Chair, TSET Board of Directors

TSET’s investment in prevention benefits Oklahoma

Michelle Stephens - TSET
Thursday, November 18, 2021
It’s common knowledge that Oklahoma’s health outcomes rate poorly compared to other states.  Those poor health outcomes didn’t happen overnight and are often the result of habits and behaviors passed from generation to generation.
Health care, jobs among House study issues

Health care, jobs among House study issues

Health care, jobs among House study issues

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Thursday, July 29, 2021
OKLAHOMA CITY – Interim study topics in the state House of Representatives this summer and fall will include health care, job development and other business issues, the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on student learning, potential measures to reduce reliance on public welfare programs,...
SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMANS OF THE YEAR: FIRST RESPONDERS

SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMANS OF THE YEAR: FIRST RESPONDERS

COVID response putting stress on nursing staffs

Tim Farley
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
LAWTON – Nurses continue to face a crisis that centers on the COVID-19 pandemic, burnout and a shortage of qualified health care professionals who also continue to care for the patients.
Rural Hospitals in Oklahoma

Rural Hospitals in Oklahoma

STAFF EDITORIAL: Be more like Georgia

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
The Oklahoma Legislature should consider borrowing an idea from Georgia that The Peach State enacted three years ago in an effort to preserve rural hospitals In 2016 the Georgia General Assembly passed a measure which allows individuals and businesses to make donations to that state’s financially...
Southwest Ledger photo by Chris Martin Frederick Hospital, opened in 1955, had the ability to house 37 acute care patients and another 30 in long term nursing care. The hospital closed in 2016. Today the community’s sole medical outlet is the Frederick Community Clinic.

Southwest Ledger photo by Chris Martin Frederick Hospital, opened in 1955, had the ability to house 37 acute care patients and another 30 in long term nursing care. The hospital closed in 2016. Today the community’s sole medical outlet is the Frederick Community Clinic.

Hospital closures, bankruptcies challenge system

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
OKLAHOMA CITY – Several rural hospitals in Oklahoma have been on life support in recent years. Some have been shuttered but others are thriving or at least surviving as clinics, albeit at a reduced level of service.
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