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Raynee Howell

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
6
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Sep 24, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Oklahoma Watch
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Jul 23, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Raynee Howell

    A Medicare trial program is helping Oklahoma dementia caregivers, but only 128 aatients are enrolled (opens the original)

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    Sandi Hegeman was able to attend her son’s wedding because a Medicare trial program funded her mother-in-law’s respite care. Hegeman’s mother-in-law, Gertrude De Cambra, has dementia and qualifies for the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience program, an eight-year voluntary model for Medicare enrollees that provides dementia patients and caregivers with respite care, caregiver education, 24/7 access to a care team, a dementia-trained care manager and other services. GUIDE helps the Hegemans g

  2. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Raynee Howell

    A Medicare Trial Program Is Helping Oklahoma Dementia Caregivers, but Only 128 Patients Are Enrolled - Oklahoma Watch (opens the original)

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    Sandi Hegeman was able to attend her son’s wedding because a Medicare trial program funded her mother-in-law’s respite care. Hegeman’s mother-in-law, Gertrude De Cambra, has dementia and qualifies for the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience program, an eight-year voluntary model for Medicare enrollees that provides dementia patients and caregivers with respite care, caregiver education, 24/7 access to a care team, a dementia-trained care manager and other services. GUIDE helps the Hegemans g

  3. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Raynee Howell

    "It's hard to stay afloat": Oklahoma borrowers describe life under the new student loan system (opens the original)

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    Katrina Harris, a single mother in Oklahoma City, takes on contract jobs on the side to afford her student loan payments. Harris went to school for her bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate of pharmacy. Now, she owes the U.S. Department of Education more than $200,000. The salary from her six-figure job is still not enough to comfortably cover her student loan payment each month. When student loan payments resumed after the pandemic-era freeze, the number of borrowers in default grew by about 4.2 m

  4. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Raynee Howell

    "It's Hard to Stay Afloat": Oklahoma Borrowers Describe Life Under the New Student Loan System - Oklahoma Watch (opens the original)

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    Katrina Harris, a single mother in Oklahoma City, takes on contract jobs on the side to afford her student loan payments. Harris went to school for her bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate of pharmacy. Now, she owes the U.S. Department of Education more than $200,000. The salary from her six-figure job is still not enough to comfortably cover her student loan payment each month. When student loan payments resumed after the pandemic-era freeze, the number of borrowers in default grew by about 4.2 m

  5. Article · Jul 23, 2026 · Raynee Howell

    Oklahoma’s ballyhooed Naloxone vending machine program is gone, leaving communities scrambling to fill the gap (opens the original)

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    Shelby Salazar was blissfully unaware of fentanyl becoming one of the deadliest drugs in Oklahoma until it reached her family. Salazar received a call from her father the day after Mother’s Day in 2020. Ty Hughes, her 22-year-old brother, had died from fentanyl poisoning. He took a pill he believed was oxycodone with a former high school classmate. Hughes’ death left Salazar shell-shocked, but it gave her a renewed purpose to tackle a prevalent issue in Oklahoma. She started a nonprofit, Talk Ab

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