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                 Oklahoma City Area Indian Health Service Lawton Service Unit
Lawton Service Unit Picture of Lawton Indian Hospital.
The Lawton Service Unit encompasses ten counties in the southwestern corner of Oklahoma, where 25,000 members of the Caddo, Comanche, Delaware, Fort Sill Apache, Kiowa, Apache, and Wichita tribes are concentrated. Although mountains and small lakes adorn the rugged landscape, this is great plains country.

The Lawton Service Unit includes the Lawton Indian Hospital, the Anadarko Health Center, and the Carnegie Health Station.

We appreciate hearing from our patients. If you have questions, comments or concerns please contact the Lawton Indian Hospital Administrative Officer John Bear via email at john.bear@ihs.gov, or phone 580-354-5100.

Lawton Indian Hospital

Situated in Lawton, the third largest city in Oklahoma, the Indian hospital is thoroughly modern. This full service facility has 26 beds and a staff of 23 physicians, 1 oral surgeon, 1 dentist, 2 optometrists, 1 podiatrist, 1 nurse practitioner, 1 behavioral health counselor, and 1 physical therapist.

This full-service facility offers inpatient care including general surgery, gynecology, internal medicine, and pediatrics, as well as outpatient services in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, radiology, laboratory, nursing, optometry, podiatry, and audiology to name a few. There is also a community health staff of nurses, educators, social workers, and environmental health specialists.

Over 800 adult and pediatric admissions annually combine with almost 100,000 outpatient visits to make this a busy health care facility.

The city of Lawton-Ft. Sill, only 85 miles southwest of Oklahoma City, has a population of roughly 100,000. Surrounded by mountains and small lakes, the city enjoys a stable economy, largely due to the 26,000 service personnel on active duty at Fort Sill and an equal number of former Army members who chose to make Lawton their home after retiring from the service.

Directions to Facility:

Southbound from OKC on I-44
  • Take exit #40A/EASTBOUND ROGERS LANE
  • Take Right fork onto INDIAN TRAIL RD - go 0.2 mi
  • Turn Right on NW ROGERS LN(US-62 E) - go 0.3 mi
  • Turn Right on NE LARIE TATUM RD - go 0.7 mi
  • Turn Left on a local road

Westbound from Duncan on OK-7
  • Take ramp onto I-44 E toward MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. FREEWAY/US-277 N/US-281 N - go 3.1 mi
  • Take exit #40A/CACHE/ALTUS - go 0.3 mi
  • Turn Right on NW ROGERS LN(US-62 E) - go 0.1 mi
  • Turn Right on NE LARIE TATUM RD - go 0.7 mi
  • Turn Left on a local road
Northbound from Wichita Falls on I-44
  • Take exit #40A/CACHE/ ALTUS - go 0.3 mi
  • Turn Right on NW ROGERS LN (US-62 E) - go 0.1 mi
  • Turn Right on NE LARIE TATUM RD - go 0.7 mi
  • Turn Left on a local road

Eastbound from Altus on US-62
  • Take US-62 East to Lawton US-62 becomes Rogers Lane
  • At the intersection of US-62E (Rogers Lane) and I-44 go straight on Rogers Lane - go 0.1 mi
  • Turn Right on NE LARIE TATUM RD - go 0.7 mi
  • Turn Left on a local road
Link to map

 

Department Phone Directory PDF: 14 KB


Anadarko Health Center

A small rural community of 6,500 about 60 miles southwest of downtown Oklahoma City. With a staff of 2 full time physicians, the Anadarko health center handles nearly 35,000 outpatients visits each year.

In addition to the advantages of small-town living. Anadarko features a number of museums and memorials of its Plains Indian heritage -- especially at Indian City, where examples of early dwellings and traditional arts and crafts have been lovingly preserved for modern man to see.

Carnegie Indian Health Station

Carnegie Indian Health Station provides outpatient medical care to all ages with one full time general practitioner. Two specialty clinics, Podiatry and Pediatrics, are offered one day a week. The Public Health Nursing program at the Carnegie Indian Health Station provides immunizations and certain community out-reach programs.  The Carnegie Indian Health Station staff is updating all active charts and verifying that all 3rd party resources are correctly annotated in the patient's record.  Coding is being done on a daily basis at the health station and with the close collaboration between the coder and providers correct procedure codes and charges are being documented.  The clinic staff is working with pharmacy personnel to increase Point of Sale collections and minimize rejections.

 
(A) Chief Executive Officer - CAPT Greg Ketcher

Lawton Indian Hospital
1515 North Lawrie Tatum Rd. • Lawton, OK 73507
 

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