Jackie Fortier
Reporter for StateImpact OklahomaJackie Fortier joined StateImpact Oklahoma in November 2017, reporting on a variety of topics and heading up its health reporting initiative. She has many journalism awards to her name during her years of multi-media reporting in Colorado, and was part of a team recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists with a Sigma Delta Chi award for excellence in breaking news reporting in 2013.
She is a former young professional fellow of the Journalism and Women's Symposium, and a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, Reporters without Borders, and a lifetime member of Kappa Tau Alpha, awarded for her thesis on disability and technology in news reporting.
She holds a bachelor's degree in English with an emphasis in creative writing from Colorado State University and a Master of Arts degree in journalism from the University of Colorado, Boulder. When she's not reporting, she enjoys spending time with her husband and three cats.
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Parents of children with disabilities qualify for the COVID-19 vaccine in California. Health officials say it's been exploited by people who don't qualify, and individualized proof is now required.
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As hospitals struggle with the patient surge in Los Angeles County, their ICU nurses are overwhelmed by the physical demands and emotional toll of caring for the most seriously ill COVID-19 patients.
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Once Pfizer's vaccine gets delivered, it's up to individual states to actually get people vaccinated. States have different priorities and plans.
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Cell phone data shows that contract workers who work at multiple nursing homes helped transmit the coronavirus between facilities.
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The legal fight over who is responsible, and who should pay for the national opioid crisis that has killed thousands of Americans will likely take…
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Oklahoma's health officials and legislators have been slow to take action to keep teenagers from vaping, even as more cases of lung-related injuries and…
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The new number from Judge Thad Balkman comes nearly three months after he ordered the drugmaker to pay $572 million for its role in the opioid crisis. Both sides had questioned that sum.
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At the beginning of November, hundreds of new laws took effect in Oklahoma, including a big change to short-term health policies. Driven by rising…
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In the state with the highest number of disaster declarations, many Oklahomans with disabilities don’t have a storm shelter.John High knows that when he…
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Oklahoma Medicaid expansion advocates are working to collect the required 178,000 signatures to get the measure on the ballot next year. It would mean…