Jillian Taylor
Reporter for StateImpact OklahomaJillian 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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Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed a bill that joins the state into a licensing compact for physician assistants. -
A bill that passed the Senate Appropriations Committee last week could provide more transparency to the prior authorization process. -
A new study found Oklahoma’s health care systems are performing poorly among people from all racial and ethnic backgrounds. -
Oklahoma Human Services is getting closer to addressing its 13-year Developmental Disabilities Services waitlist. -
Opill, which was approved by the FDA last July, is the nation’s first over-the-counter birth control pill, and it’s hitting pharmacy shelves now. -
A Tulsa STI testing clinic worries a bill seeking to improve sexually transmitted infection rates will accomplish the exact opposite. -
The Oklahoma Office of the Attorney General has received 101 applications for an initial round of opioid lawsuit settlement grants. -
Oklahoma bill allowing providers to opt out of care if it goes against their beliefs fails committeeA bill that would allow health care workers to withhold services that go against their beliefs failed in the Oklahoma Senate Health and Human Services Committee
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Senate Bill 1491 would allow providers to prescribe drugs to the partners of Oklahomans diagnosed with sexually transmitted infections that only require one treatment.
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Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt vetoed a bill Friday that would have allowed providers like nurse practitioners to independently prescribe certain drugs.
