Too many people use emergency rooms as their only avenue to primary care.

In addition to inflating health care costs throughout the system, these emergency visits are inefficient and ineffective for uninsured and underinsured Oklahomans.

As a result, RAM Oklahoma will make all effort to connect its patients with permanent, high-quality medical homes.

A medical home offers patients high-quality and low-cost preventative health care, and many medical homes -- such as community health centers -- will have multiple services under one roof.

In addition, RAM Oklahoma patients will be screened for Medicaid eligibility and will be provided location-specific information regarding affordable access to dental and vision care.