Calling all Administrators,

There is a bill going to legislature February 1st (OK SB719) to remove OSBELTCA as our governing body and transferring oversight authority to the State Department of Health. Imagine if you get an Administrative tag and you get to appeal it to the same governing body that issued it. This is so wrong on many levels.

As Administrators, we are independent professionals and should stand up for our own governing body. What other group of licensed professionals do not have their own governing agency.

This appears to be a direct assault on the Board itself (proposing to dismantle a Board that is easily a Top 5 of its kind in the nation when there is a stated goal of the Governor for all agencies to achieve Top Ten status - and OSBELTCA is there). Certainly inconsistent with the Governors strategy and goals.

Administrators need to stand up and defend their profession here. Is it in the best interest of public safety somehow? We don’t see it. Where our fees require legislative approval to change them, it appears that the LTCFAB would simply recommend fee changes to the OSDH and it would not require legislative approval. That appears to be a built in conflict of interest to permit an agency to approve its own fee structure, a system where another agency charges for their services and they approve their own fee changes internally. There’s a lot wrong with the whole of this notion and not a lot of positive change.

Administrators need to be heard about this Bill. The new Board’s meetings would also be quarterly per this bill. If an administrator misses one, then you’re waiting six months for your license? OSBELTCA meets monthly.

THIS IS THE TIME FOR ALL ADMINISTRATORS TO STAND UP AND FIGHT THIS.

We need everyone to send Senator McCortney an email to request that this is NOT in the best interest of the 1100 Administrators across our great state of Oklahoma. His email is below. Help us help to stop this!

https://oksenate.gov/senators/Greg-McCortney
Greg McCortney | Oklahoma Senate
OKSENATE.GOV