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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The $50 billion rural health fund established in President Donald Trump’s megabill seeks to help stabilize and strengthen rural hospitals and providers. -
More Oklahoma children are entering kindergarten with exemptions from vaccines. -
More than 1.2 million pounds of food have been delivered through 55 hospital- and clinic-based food pantries since 2020. -
Access to advanced cancer care is expanding for residents in Norman and south-central Oklahoma. -
An complex in Midwest City confirmed that one of its residents, who tested positive for a severe type of pneumonia called Legionnaires' disease, has died. -
Oklahoma Children’s Hospital OU Health is expanding access to childhood vaccinations ahead of the school year. -
A reproductive health advocate called it a “direct attack” on Planned Parenthood and its ability to participate in Oklahoma Medicaid. -
Licensed child care facilities can now apply to participate in a new program designed to support the recruitment and retention of child care employees. -
Pending federal approval, schools could recoup more Medicaid dollars from providing services like occupational and speech therapy, and behavioral health supports to eligible students. -
Bethany Children’s Health Center celebrated the opening of its first home in a new initiative that aims to address the need for affordable and accessible housing for individuals with disabilities.
