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Crisis Center Aims to Address Mental Health Care Gap for Tulsa's Youth

Crisis Center Aims to Address Mental Health Care Gap for Tulsa’s Youth

With a relative who suffered from mental illness, Deneisha Johnson used a similar crisis center while growing up in Texas. But it was, in her words, “much scarier” than the one she walked into on Wednesday as an adult in Tulsa. “It’s nice; it’s soothing,” said Johnson, now chair of the Board of Counseling and …

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Our View: Healthcare: Mergers are generally not good for consumers

Our View: Healthcare: Mergers are generally not good for consumers

Consumers and healthcare companies should be wary of a proposed mega merger between two major healthcare systems in Minnesota and South Dakota. Fairview Health Services of Minneapolis and Sanford Health of Sioux Falls announced plans to merge in November, citing, as always, efficiency and improved patient care. But experts who study the economics of health …

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