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State leaders today cut the ribbon on Oklahoma’s new Pandemic Center for Innovation and Excellence in Stillwater.The state Public Health Lab is also housed with the Pandemic Center after moving from Oklahoma City. The lab runs many COVID-19 tests, as well as other tests such as newborn screenings.State leaders gave an inside look at the Pandemic Center and Public Health Lab today. “This is a really, really exciting day for the state of Oklahoma,” Gov. Kevin Stitt said. The new lab fe...

State leaders today cut the ribbon on Oklahoma’s new Pandemic Center for Innovation and Excellence in Stillwater

Oklahoma Department of Health outsources management of public health lab [The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City] Dec. 24—The Oklahoma State Department of Health will outsource management of the state’s public health lab. The state has contracted with Prairie One Solutions, a newly formed subsidiary of the Oklahoma State University Research Foundation, to oversee the public health lab and the future Oklahoma Pandemic Center for Innovation and Excellence. The new management contract coincides with a d...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma State Department of Health will outsource management...

TRANSCRIPT: Dick Pryor: This is Capitol Insider, your weekly look inside Oklahoma politics, policy and government. Im Dick Pryor with eCapitol news director Shawn Ashley. Shawn, with about three weeks left in the year, Governor Kevin Stitt is issuing a new executive order to address the high numbers of coronavirus cases in the state and also the resulting stress on hospitals. Now, key to this new order is limiting the size of public gatherings. What is the rationale behind this approach? Shawn ...

By: Barry Mangold OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma State Department of Health is considering a public-private partnership with a nonprofit to manage the Public Health Lab and the Oklahoma Pandemic Center for Innovation and Excellence, or OPCIE.  Deputy Commissioner Travis Kirkpatrick said Wednesday they are in talks with Prairie One, a subsidiary of the Oklahoma State University Research Foundation to lead the facilities, which are staffed by state employees.  “We are not privatizing the publi...