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Legislators to Join Policy Panel at OKPCA Conference

On Thursday, September 30, OKPCA will host legislators as part of our policy panel at the 2021 Annual Conference. Join us next week to hear from Sen John Haste, Sen. Carri Hicks, Rep. Marcus McEntire, and Rep. Cyndi Munson.

Our panel will pull from their experiences on relevant committees to speak on health care topics.

• Rep. McEntire is the Chairman of the House Appropriations and Budget (A&B) Subcommittee on Health and Human Services (HHS), and he is a members of the House Insurance and Public Health Committees.
• Rep. Munson is the House Minority Caucus Chair, a member of the Joint Committee on Pandemic Relief HHS Subcommittee, and a member of both the House Appropriations and Budget Committee and Children, Youth,  and Family Services Committee.
• Sen. Haste is Co-Chair of the Joint Committee on Pandemic Relief HHS Subcommittee, and a member of the Senate HHS, Transportation, and Appropriation Committees.
• Sen. Hicks is Co-Chair of the Diabetes Caucus and a member of the Senate HHS, Education, and Finance Committees.

Toolkit on Federal Vaccine Mandates

Colleen Meiman, National Policy Advisor for State & Regional Associations of Community Health Centers, has shared a toolkit for health centers that consolidates the information and resources available to date around the impending Federal vaccine mandate for health care employers & workers. The toolkit—which is expected to be updated as more information becomes available—contains:

• A set of FAQs. For many of these questions, there are no answers yet.  (There are being shared with federal administrators to be addressed in the interim final rule.)
• Links to resources to address vaccine hesitancy specifically among health care workers. 
• Information around medical exemptions, including how health centers providers can respond to patient requests.
• Sample documents from a health center that has already announced a vaccine requirement. 

 
Click here to download the toolkit.