Oklahoma Complete Health Appoints Clay Franklin as Chief Executive Officer
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Oklahoma Complete Health, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Centene Corporation, today announced the appointment of Clay Franklin as Plan President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Franklin will lead the plan, which was recently selected to provide managed care for the SoonerSelect and SoonerSelect Specialty Children s Plan programs that will commence in mid-to-late fall. As a lifelong Oklahoman and committed member of our local medical community, I am thrilled to lead Oklahoma Complete Health as we partner with the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to improve health outcomes for Oklahomans, said Mr. Franklin. We believe that healthcare is best delivered locally, and in the coming months we plan to hire over 500 local staff in Tulsa and Oklahoma City to help us deliver focused, compassionate, and coordinated care
Oklahoma healthcare training built to improve dementia patient care
By Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton, Citizen Potawatomi Nation Public Information Department
An education program through OU Health is attempting to shore up access to care for the state’s dementia patients.
In 2019, the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center received a five-year, $3.75 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Service Administration. Among the objectives of the grant was to provide community-based training and educational opportunities to improve health outcomes for the state’s dementia patients.
“We know people are living longer than ever before,” said Terence Gipson, Oklahoma Dementia Care Network program evaluator. “With an increasing elder population, particularly here in Oklahoma and in our rural communities, there’s a need to provide more community-based services for our elders, particularly in the realm of Alzheimer’s disease and
Virginia Eloise Johnson Charboneau (âWeezieâ), age 96, was born on October 2, 1924, in Haskell, Texas to Alice Pearl Mitchell & Otis Jack Johnson and passed away at 11:45PM on January 21, 2021 due to Alzheimerâs disease exacerbated by COVID-19. She was the oldest of four siblings and as the eldest, she cared for her sister Rosanne and her brothers Sonny & Jerry while her parents worked hard to provide for their family during the combined crises of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl when jobs were practically non-existent and even the most basic of lifeâs necessities were hard to come by. She didnât have much of a childhood, yet these hard times forged her commitment to family. She outlived all her siblings.
New research identifies key system in C. difficile that regulates the pathogen’s virulence
Washington, D.C. – December 22, 2020 – A new study has shown that 2 genes within
Clostridium difficile, AgrB1 and AgrD1, are involved in multiple functions, including the ability of the organism to form spores, move and produce toxin. The study, published in
mBio, an open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, provides clues as to how researchers could manipulate
C. difficile and its ability to infect people.
“From a very basic bacteriology standpoint, it’s somewhat of a novel discovery that this system is involved in so many different events at one time,” said Jimmy Ballard, PhD, professor and chairman of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, and principal investigator of the study. “Agr can be targeted with drugs and other methods to inhibit its activity and prevent the organism
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