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 decision to move the public health lab from Oklahoma City to Stillwater so the lab and the pandemic center can be housed together.
The move of the state’s public health lab is unlikely to be complete by the end of the year, as state leaders originally thought.