CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INTEGRATED NETWORK SYSTEM, INC. (COINS)



	COINS, WHAT IS IT AND WHY DOES IT EXIST? COINS offers as its services and support to the community in addressing some of the challenges of our health care delivery system. COINS works to help provide more of the pieces to the puzzle around health care access to services and quality of care for the low-income uninsured and those who choose to provide those services. For many years now those who are traditional safety-net providers had dealt with the same issues with too little progress. We were asked to develop a collaborative network which would help improve access to specialty, hospital, diagnostic services and prescription medications for the uninsured being seen by providers that work with us. We were asked to provide an economical and more cost effective way to provide community-based education and training to providers and staff who work with a predominately low-income uninsured population. The pieces we bring to the table have been designed as links in the overall strategies to complete a comprehensive and sometimes exhaustive puzzle. Have you ever watched a young child with a puzzle? The first thing you might have observed is the opening of the puzzle container and a rapid throwing of the container aside as the puzzle pieces fall haphazardly to the floor. Then the first piece is picked up and held in hand and put down very affirmatively on the floor, so far so good! What’s the challenge? Oh-oh now they pick-up the second piece and alas it does not fit on the first piece, ah-ha the challenge. What next? The child starts turning over the pieces, one by one trying to fit a piece that won’t fit, all appears lost, until a gentle suggestion to them, look at the picture on the container to see what you are working to put together. COINS vision serves as the picture on the container helping define the pieces we need to help build the puzzle. COINS, seeks to build collaborative relationships because we understand no one individual, government entity or organization has all the pieces but between them, have all the pieces that are needed. To the extent we choose to put our pieces on the table and work together we solve the puzzle. We choose to put our pieces on the table and through this tour of our website you will gain a glimpse of some of these and from time to time we invite you to visit our site again as we are always working to add more of the needed pieces to the puzzle. The work we accomplish is supported in part by federal grants, local grants, contracts with county and state governmental agencies, financial and in-kind donations and contributions, donated community provider services and United Way. Thanks again for visiting our site! Back



	Our Core Values guide us as we work to accomplish our mission. Compassion – We are concerned about the suffering of others and actively work toward finding solutions Organized – We demonstrate our stewardship with an orderly and disciplined work ethic Innovative – We try new approaches to unravel old dilemmas in an effort to achieve our mission Neighborly – We enthusiastically support efforts to find answers to the problems faced by our community Service Oriented – We place great value on service to our members, clients and co-workers Our History: Incorporated in Oklahoma in 1997 by three original founding member organizations – Community Health Centers, Inc., sponsors of Mary Mahoney Memorial Health Center; Southeast Area Health Center, Inc., and Oklahoma City-County Health Department. Non-profit 501(c)(3) IRS designation received in July 1998 1999-2002 the Interdisciplinary Clinical Care Committee helped develop and implement what is now Central Oklahoma Project Access (COPA) 2002 Implemented Shared Administrative and Human Resources Services 2003 to present COPA is guided by an Advisory Committee which reports to the COINS Board of Directors June 2005 COINS designated as a new United Way Agency Board of Directors: Board members represent active founding member organizations, community-based health center providers, community organizations and individuals. Members: Rosalyn Johnson, MBA, Chair, CEO, Community Health Centers, Inc. Anita Fream, Vice-Chair, CEO, Planned Parenthood of Central Oklahoma Dr. Paul B. Dungan, DVM, MPH Secretary/Treasurer, Director, Oklahoma City-County Health Department Dr. Susan M. Harmon, MD, MS, FACP, Clinical Director, COINS Larry Hicks,MS, BSN, Program Administrator for Adult Health, Oklahoma City-County Health Department HR Holman, MA, APR, Public Relations Officer, Oklahoma City-County Health Department Craig Knutson, CO, Oklahoma State Department of Insurance Margo MacRoberts, RNC, MS, CNAA, BC, Assistant Dean for Clinical Operations OUHSC College of Nursing Jacquelyn Parks, Excutive Director, Metropolitan Better Living Center Mary Blankenship Pointer, VP, UMB Bank, n.a. Dr. Bernadine Tolbert, MD Cathy Velte, Clinical Laboratory Manager, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation George E. Young, Sr., MA, Div, MBA, D. MIN., Pastor, Holy Temple Baptist Church Founding Board Member Emeritus Dr. Donna Neal Thomas, RN, PhD

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