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February 4, 2023 The Elk City News - 5 Oklahoma Nominations Being Weekly Oklahoma Oil and Gas Proudly Brought to you by: OIL & NATURAL GAS OERIZ Accepted for Gov. Oil & Gas Report for the State of Oklahoma for January 23 - January 29, 2023 Stitt’s Outstanding Achievement in SPACING INCREASED DENSITY Section Section Township Agriculture Award Township County Range Operator County Range Operator TRINITY OPERATING USG LLC OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food ATOKA 14-02N-12E TRINITY OPERATING USG LLC ATOKA 14-02N-12E ATOKA 23-02N-12E TRINITY OPERATING USG LLC and Forestry is accepting nominations for Gov. Stitt’s Outstanding ATOKA 23-02N-12E TRINITY OPERATING USG LLC BLAINE 27-14N-13W WALTER DUNCAN OIL LLC* Achievement in Agriculture Award. The winner will be inducted into the BLAINE 25-19N-12W LONGFELLOW ENERGY LP. Oklahoma Agriculture Hall of Fame, which is the state's most presti- BLAINE 30-19N-11W LONGFELLOW ENERGY LP. CANADIAN 04-12N-O7W CAMINO NATURAL RESOURCES CANADIAN 09-12N-O7W ‘CAMINO NATURAL RESOURCES gious award honoring distinguished Oklahoma agriculture producers. BLAINE 31-19N-11W LONGFELLOW ENERGY LP CANADIAN 12-13N-08W PALOMA PARTNERS IV LLC ‘The Governor's Outstanding Achievement in Agriculture award honors BLAINE 36-19N-12W LONGFELLOW ENERGY LP CANADIAN 24-14N-06W PALOMA PARTNERS IV LLC leaders in the agriculture industry who exemplify personal values, DEWEY 08-17N-19W MEWBOURNE OIL COMPANY CANADIAN 25-14N-O6W PALOMA PARTNERS IV LLC performance, and achievement. Nominees should have high standards ELLIS 20-17N-24W MEWBOURNE OIL COMPANY of conduct, leadership, innovation, and accomplishments in agriculture, CANADIAN 26-14N-O6W PALOMA PARTNERS IV LLC ELLIS 29-17N-23W MEWBOURNE OIL COMPANY PALOMA PARTNERS IV LLC while also being a role model for Oklahoma agriculture’s young people. ELLIS 32-17N-23W MEWBOURNE OIL COMPANY CANADIAN 35-14N-06W ‘The nomination form is available at https://ag.ok.gov/oklahoma-ag- GARVIN 07-04N-04W CASILLAS PETROLEUM RESOUR CARTER 34-05S-02W YALE OIL ASSOC hall-of-fame/, MEWBOURNE OIL COMPANY GARVIN 08-04N-04W CASILLAS PETROLEUM RESOUR CUSTER ELLIS 01-13N-17W 04-18N-24W MEWBOURNE OIL COMPANY All nominations must be received by Friday, March 3. GARVIN 17-04N-04W CASILLAS PETROLEUM RESOUR MEWBOURNE OIL COMPANY ‘The winner will be honored on Oklahoma Ag Day at the State Capitol GARVIN 18-04N-04W CASILLAS PETROLEUM RESOUR ELLIS 09-18N-24W MEWBOURNE OIL COMPANY Tuesday, April 11. 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Stone Purcell, OK MEWBOURNE OIL COMPANY MCCLAIN 04-07N-03W CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC ELLIS 33-19N-24W 2001 | Erwin R, Duerksen Corn, OK GARVIN 07-04N-04W CASILLAS PETROLEUM RESOUR MCCLAIN 08-07N-O03W CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC 2002 | Henry Jo Von Tungeln Calumet, OK MCCLAIN 09-07N-03W CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC GARVIN 08-04N-04W CASILLAS PETROLEUM RESOUR 2003 | Paul Jackson Apache, OK MCCLAIN 12-07N-04W CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC GARVIN 17-04N-04W CASILLAS PETROLEUM RESOUR 2004 | Ralph Chain Canton, OK GARVIN 18-04N-04W CASILLAS PETROLEUM RESOUR 2005 | Tom Gilliam Newcastle, OK MCCLAIN 13-08N-04W CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC MCCLAIN 17-07N-03W CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC MCCLAIN 05-07N-03W EOG RESOURCES INC 2006 | Murray Williams Altus, OK MCCLAIN 19-08N-03W CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC MCCLAIN 09-06N-02W LIME ROCK RESOURCES IV-A 2007 | L.B. Castle Jet, OK MCCLAIN 20-07N-03W CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC MCCLAIN 16-06N-02W LIME ROCK RESOURCES IV-A 2008 | Paul Hitch Guymon, OK MCCLAIN 20-08N-03W CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC MCCLAIN 28-07N-03W CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC 2009 | Elmore Bathurst Blackwell, OK MCCLAIN 21-08N-03W CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC MCCLAIN 32-08N-03W EOG RESOURCES INC 2010 | Lew Meibergen Enid, OK MCCLAIN 24-08N-04W CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC 2011 | Wayne Krehbiel Hydro, OK MCCLAIN 28-07N-03W CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC 2012 | Jack Givens Mangum, OK MCCLAIN 28-08N-03W CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC 2013 | John Hughes Bartlesville, OK MCCLAIN 29-08N-03W CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC 2014 | Rodd Moesel Oklahoma City MCCLAIN 30-08N-03W CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC 2015 | Joe Mayer Guymon, OK 2016 | Dr. Clint Roush Arapaho, OK Send to [email protected] MCCLAIN 33-07N-03W CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC 2018 | Keith Kisling Burlinton, OK MCCLAIN 33-08N-03W CONTINENTAL RESOURCES INC 2019 | Jimmy Harrell Leedy, OK with a description! PONTOTOC 09-03N-04E GULF EXPLORATION LLC PONTOTOC 16-03N-04E GULF EXPLORATION LLC 2020 | Barry Pollard Enid, OK 2021 | Tommy Stephens Guymon, OK ‘WOODS 29-29N-17W BCE MACH III LLC 2022 | Don Schieber Ponca City, OK How a Southwest Oklahoma Town Lost its Hospital, and is Scrambling to Get it Back By Lionel Ramos 192 people who worked at Clin- dents can be leery of seeking out reported by Sinor EMS through new license as if this is a brand- laying out everything that needed Oklahoma Watch ton Regional and nearby clinics healthcare in a lot of situations.” Jan, 25 were normal for the first new facility.” to be done before the year’s end. as physicians, nurses, radiologists Eric Walkeris the security guard at month of the year, he said. He said the city is in the process ‘The hospital will need permits and CLINTON — Residents of this and other staff. Some have found Clinton Mission House, the city’s of applying for state licensure. The registrations to run lab tests, oper- western Oklahoma town are get- work at hospitals in Weatherford homeless shelter. He is experienc- An ‘Orderly Wind-Down of Opera- next step is building inspection ate a pharmacy, and use controlled ting a taste of life without a hos- and Elk City. ing a rash spreading on his am- tions’ by the state health department to substances, radioactive materi- pital. Clinton Regional’s closure follows putated leg. He has no phone or determine what renovations are als and equipment. Applying for For Eric Walker, that means treat- a national trend of shuttering ru- vehicle to make a 28-mile drive to Nationwide, 141 hospitals closed needed. these permits can take over a year. ing the rash on his amputated ral hospitals. Eight have closed Elk City, where his doctor's prac- or reduced services since 2010, ac- Clinton residents voted in 1997 Blakeburn, interviewed by Okla- leg on his own. For Eli Colston, it or drastically downsized in Okla- tice moved. cording to the Sheps Center data. to set aside $6 million for hos- homa Watch last month, said he means an ambulance trip 15-30 homa since 2005, according to a “There's a lot of people over here pital-related emergencies. With never received a response from the ‘The research points out there are minutes longer for his epileptic study out of the Sheps Center for multiple factors contributing to compound interest, that fund has city manager. that are on medication and there is seizures, which occur once every Health Services Research. Among hospital closures, including failure grown to $11.3 million and can be ‘The hospital has been closed for no doctor for them,” Walker said, three weeks or so. the rural towns that have seen clo- referring to four mothers staying to recover from the recession, pop- used for hospital renovations if a month, and Johnston can’t give For the 32 cancer patients who sures are Sayre, Pawnee and Wil- at the shelter with 10 young chil- ulation demographic trends, mar- Clinton voters approve in a March a clear answer of when it will re- were receiving care at Clinton burton. dren between them. ket trends, decreased demand for 7 special election. open. Regional Hospital, it has meant Signs of Alliance Health ending “If someone has a heart attack inpatient services and new models “We'll use what we need to use “People want to know with drop- looking elsewhere for life-saving in Clinton first appeared when here and there's no hospital, of care. for what we need,” Johnston said. dead certainly exactly what day chemotherapy infusions. the hospital's intensive care unit they'll probably end up dying in Alliance Health notified the Clin- “We'd prefer not to spend a whole we're going to reopen,” the city “There is a huge gap in care for our dosed in 2019, followed by the the ambulance or something” ton Hospital Authority it would ot of money on equipment or fa- manager said. “What do I do? Lie community right now,” said Sarah downsizing of the rehab unit in Ambulatory response times in not renew its lease in January cilities.” to them in good faith?” Rose, a registered nurse who lost 2020 and the end of the obstetrics Clinton remain among the state's 2022. The company shared guid- Dr. Robert Blakeburn worked at her job when the hospital closed in unit in late 2021. fastest at just over three minutes ance and support with Clinton Clinton Regional Hospital for over Lionel Ramos is a Report for December. ‘The Impact on the Vulnerable last week, said Johnny Red, direc- as the city conducted a search for 20 years. He and the handful of America corps member who cov- “The ones this trickles down to Rose, 44, worked the night shift tor of operations for Sinor Emer- a new partner, said Doug Ross, a other physicians on staff rotated ers race and equity issues for are the disadvantaged, the home- in the hospital's medical-surgical gency Medical Service. spokesman for the company, in a between positions like chief of Oklahoma Watch. Contact him at bound, the elderly, the young, peo- unit, where patients were admit- What's changed is where people statement. Multiple attempts to staff and director of ER or inpa- 405-905-9953 or lramos@oklaho- ple on Medicaid — Sooner Care ted directly from the emergency are taken. Depending on where in interview Ross were unsuccessful. tient rehabilitation. In October, mawatch.org, Follow him on Twit- — people that don't have cars and room or by their doctors during Clinton a 911 call is made, a pa- The hospital authority began Blakeburn sent Johnston an email ter at @LionelRamos_. people who don't have telephones dlinic hours. She is among those tient may be taken to hospitals in meeting in executive session about to dial 911.” who can afford to wait, counting Weatherford, Cordell or Elk City, Clinton Regional’s fate with city Clinton Regional Hospital ser- ona re-opening, because her hus- which are all 15 to 30 minutes attorney Ryan Meacham in March. viced a town of 8,612 people until band’s life insurance brokering, away. In June, the city hired Oklahoma as the private company managing it music gigs and Airbnb can support “We use significantly more medi- City-based law firm Crowe and pulled out on Dec. 31, citing a lack their family. cations,” Red said, using as an Dunlevy to interpret the terms of of profitability. Five urgent care “T'm in a station of privilege. I example epinephrine, commonly the original lease to say Alliance clinics in Clinton and Weatherford understand that,” Rose said. “But administered every three to four Health is required to transfer its Available hor closed with it. Alliance Health also canceled state there were plenty of nurses who minutes to someone experiencing federal medicare provider number were not, who are the only bread- cardiac arrest. A trip to Clinton to the city or the next provider. PICKUP ev DELIVERY and federal licenses to operate in winners in their family.” Regional may have required one A month later, Alliance Health $50 $75 Clinton rather than transferring Rose said she worries about dis- dose compared to three or four sought relief from its lease in US. them the Clinton Hospital Au- advantaged patients she used to doses for trips to outlying hospi- district court to begin an “orderly thority or Carrus Health, another see come through the emergency tals, he said. wind-down of its operations,” private healthcare company ex- room who were sick and injured. ‘The need to refuel, clean and re- court documents show. pected to take over operations. She pointed out that Latino resi- stock supplies after a trip out of Alliance Health could have transi- Clinton's plans to reopen the hos- dents, who make up more than a town increases return-to-service tioned the licenses to the city or 6 Months 1 Year pital hinge in part on the outcome third of the town's population, can time for the ambulance units, Red Carrus Health and done what ev- Add. the e-paper to a print subsoriation for ¢/ per month of a March 7 special election. For face income, cultural and language said. ery previous provider before them now, no licenses mean no services. barriers. “Bodily fluids, blood, that sort had done, said Clinton city man- ‘The hospital authority is applying “The diabetic rate in that demo- of thing, need to be cleaned out ager Robert Johnston. for them as if the hospital hasn’t been providing care since the graphic is so high and often di- too, and maybe even a change of “We tried to have a change of agnosed at early ages,” she said, clothes. Our return to service time ownership, but we never did get “ElkCituNews 1970s, prompting millions to be “They take care of their elderly in can be impacted by up to an hour,” them to transfer the license to us,” spent on renovations. the home too and while they need Red said. Johnston said. “The only other 109 W. Broadway Also left without a hospital are the a lot of support, our Hispanic resi- The 157 medical emergencies recourse was to apply for a brand- 580-225-3000 - www.elkcityoknews.com