FOR RELEASE: May 5, 2000  
CONTACT: Dick Gunn
405/271-5601

OSDH Employees Suspended

Effective 5 p.m. today, Jerry Regier, acting director of the Oklahoma State Department of Health, has suspended with pay six employees within the Long Term Care Services.

Their names and job classifications are as follows:

Evelyn Battle, Health Facilities Consultant
Judith Cochran, Regional Health Facilities Consultant
Linda Lopez, Health Facilities Consultant
Barbara Altstatt, Executive Assistant
Karen Verner, Health Facilities Consultant
Leslie Henkuzens, No classification available

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