We received an email today from the Oklahoma Office of Management & Enterprise Services (OMES) that our Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) status in Tulsa County is terminated effective May 10th. This comes just 8 days after a press release was issued from the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (ODMHSAS) that all CCBHC funding was being frozen until we could provide more insight into our financial standing. No formal notice was provided explaining the reason for freezing our funding, and no forewarning was provided related to the termination of our services in Tulsa County.

While we remain willing to collaborate with the state to better understand these actions, our first concern is for the over 53,000 Oklahomans served through our Tulsa office who will immediately lose their current mental health and addiction treatment services, and those unable to access future services. This includes those in our community experiencing homelessness and other underserved Tulsa populations, as well as public school students, law enforcement officials, first responders, community partners and more.

The greater bearing on the Tulsa community will be significant – both in the loss of social services – including the immediate closing of our Tulsa Urgent Recovery Center and our Tulsa Addiction Recovery Center, a 250-bed residential addiction treatment center (the largest in the state) – and in economic impact, as we currently employ over 600 staff members in Tulsa.

We have been in communication with ODMHSAS to resolve this matter but, at the time of this notice, we have not received formal resolution.

As we are working toward a hopeful resolution, we continue to offer our full array of services in Tulsa through the May 10^th contract termination date.