Jillian Taylor
StateImpact Oklahoma Health ReporterJillian Taylor reports on health and related topics for StateImpact Oklahoma. She is a recent graduate of the Gaylord College of Journalism at the University of Oklahoma with practical experience at the Tulsa World and nonprofit The Frontier. She calls Colleyville, Texas her hometown, in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
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OU Health officials celebrated the grant Tuesday, which will support the project's general fund. -
The Republican gubernatorial candidate expressed support for the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s investigation into Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. -
Ascension St. John is seeking federal approval to turn its Nowata hospital into a rural emergency facility, which would mean ending acute inpatient and swing-bed services -
The investigation comes after the state Medicaid agency announced it recently uncovered an international crime ring believed to have fraudulently enrolled thousands of Oklahomans in Medicaid. -
The state Medicaid agency’s current director, Clay Bullard, notified Stitt’s office he will return to the private sector. He joined the Health Care Authority in October 2025. -
The illness has been reported in dozens of states across the U.S., sickening thousands of people. -
The $470 million facility in Tahlequah is more than double the size of the previous building, which was built around four decades ago -
The Texas-based nonprofit Human Coalition lobbies for anti-abortion programs and gets millions of dollars in funding from other states. -
Hospital leaders are asking for facility-specific projections amid predicted changes to supplemental hospital payment programs, arguing the funding differences will affect individual hospitals differently. -
Budget cuts and modifications are leaving the state Medicaid agency with “razor-thin margins” as it enters the 2027 fiscal year.
