Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-3240.2

As used in the Community Hospitals Authority Act:

1. “Authority” means the Community Hospitals Authority;

2. “Health care system” means a system providing inpatient and

outpatient services that is not limited to a specific facility or

modality of care;

3. “Medically indigent” means a person requiring medically

necessary hospital or other health care services for the person or

the dependents of the person, who has insufficient or no public or

private third-party coverage and whose personal resources are

insufficient to provide for needed medical care; and

4. “Participating health care system” means a health care

system that has within it a major community hospital that expends at

least Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000.00) annually providing care

for medically indigent persons from a multicounty service area and

that is located in a municipality having a population of three

hundred seventy-five thousand (375,000) or more which does not have

a health care system statutorily charged with indigent care and

medical teaching or training responsibilities on the effective date

of the Community Hospitals Authority Act.