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 Crossroads Renewal Project is trying to raise around $44 million to bring affordable health care and resources to families in south OKC. -
A plaintiff in the case called Thursday’s decision a “powerful step” toward protecting early education access. -
Repro46, a group educating Oklahomans on reproductive health care amid the state’s abortion ban, hosted free screenings of the documentary Zurawski v Texas in Oklahoma City and Tulsa. -
Mental health providers across Oklahoma are assessing the impacts of $40 million in contract line item cuts from the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services made public last week. -
Providers for mental health treatment and substance abuse services across Oklahoma are facing major funding cuts. -
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.
