http://okc.biz/oklahoma/articles.sec-10-1-health-care.html A former prison chaplain who advocates now for Alzheimer's patients worries that one day he will unable to keep up daily tasks and become a burden on his family.]]> An Oklahoma biotechnology company received a $2.4 million grant from the Department of Defense to test an experimental drug that would prevent hearing loss.]]> The corporate-wellness culture traces its roots back to the 1980s, when the prevailing wisdom championed a correlation between a healthy lifestyle and a healthier, happier employee.]]> In her role as vice president of rural services for Mercy Health System of Oklahoma, it’s Cindy Carmichael’s job to expand the system’s presence across the state. ]]> Sepsis is a deadly blood poisoning that can strike quickly and kill mercilessly. It claims more than 100,000 American lives each year, and it’s a problem scientists at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation have been studying for decades.]]>
]]> It was the mid-’90s and the tide was starting to turn. The $246 billion tobacco legal settlement was still a few years away, but popular opinion regarding smoking had reached the tipping point.]]> Every day, she wakes at 4 a.m., despite being up most of the night caring for her mother.]]> The Oklahoma City Indian Clinic tied for the most awards received by a health care provider at the recent Government Performance and Results Act awards meeting. The White Cloud Health Station in White Cloud, Kan. shared the top spot with OKCIC.]]> Used to be, when you drove into a town, you’d find a sign from the local chamber of commerce welcoming you. These days, the first thing a visitor to Oklahoma City is bound to see is a hospital.]]> The Department of Health and Human Services announced yesterday the Health Care Innovation Challenge from the CMS Innovation Center, a new initiative designed to test creative ways to deliver high quality medical care and reduce costs across the country.
]]> The Oklahoma City-County Health Department and Wellness Now will break ground Monday on a new Health and Wellness Campus devoted to prevention services.]]> Cancer Sucks, Inc. will present Children’s Hospital Foundation with a $10,000 donation that will help transform the health of Oklahoma’s children by funding pediatric cancer research to be used in the study of genetics.]]> Seeing is believing at the Dean McGee Eye Institute when it comes to a recent $46 million addition to the facility. In the soaring five story Inasmuch Foundation lobby, dignitaries and the institute’s staff and leadership gathered Oct. 3 to dedicate the facility and a piece of art on the lawn looking toward Lincoln Boulevard.]]> At First Bethany Bank, a single case of the flu can quickly get serious. With only 35 employees, First Bethany is a small bank. If several people get sick at once from the flu, conducting day-to-day business can pose quite a challenge, which is why it offers free flu shots to its employees.]]> St. Anthony Hospital and Share Medical Center are pleased to announce a formal affiliation between the two facilities.  The affiliation was finalized in a signing ceremony today in Alva.
]]> St. Anthony Hospital and Holdenville General Hospital recently announced a formal affiliation between the two facilities that was finalized in a recent signing ceremony in Holdenville. ]]> Logan Medical Center and Mercy have reached an agreement that will transfer
ownership of the hospital and its four clinics in Guthrie, Crescent and Edmond, to Mercy. The
transaction will be finalized on Oct. 1 when LMC will become Mercy Hospital Logan County.]]> Attorney and certified public accountant Gayle Acton managed her midlife crisis pretty well nearly eight years ago: she became a veterinarian.]]> On Aug. 28, 1946, a group of state leaders gathered at the Capitol. They were there to witness the Secretary of State of Oklahoma grant the charter of a new, nonprofit institute: the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.]]>