Success Stories by Topic: Dental health

• Dakota Smiles Mobile Dental Program
  November 2009
  This program is a dental office on wheels to provide restorative and preventive dental care to underserved children across South Dakota.
• South Georgia Regional Dental Health Initiative
  July 2009
  The South Georgia Regional Dental health Initiative was designed to provide on-site dental health prevention education in each of the five counties through a full-time Dental Hygienist and dental clinic services one day a week in dental clinic located in Turner County.
• Inter-Lakes Dental Clinic
  July 2009
  The clinic offered the full range of dental services, including fillings, sealants, root canals, extractions, crowns, bridges, dentures, cleanings, and checkups. Clients served by the clinic were of all ages and income levels, although the project placed strong emphasis on serving indigent patients covered by Medicaid or Child/Family Health Plus.
• Smiles on Wheels Mobile Dental Program
  May 2009
  The purpose of this project was to implement a mobile dental service, Smiles on Wheels, that emphasized community-based oral health education targeting low-income preschool children through third-graders as well as pregnant women living in poverty in five rural counties in the Florida Panhandle.
• Fayette County Dental Clinic
  May 2009
  The Fayette County Dental Clinic was created to meet the oral health needs of Medicaid recipients and low-income families in Fayette County.
• Child Dental Health Initiative
  May 2009
  The Child Dental Health Initiative was designed to develop and implement a comprehensive, innovative approach to the delivery of dental services to low-income children living in the MAYland region.
• Miles For Smiles
  May 2009
  The mission of the Miles for Smiles project was to create a mobile dental unit to provide quality, onsite dental care to low-income children in the seven-county area.
• Maquoketa Community School District (MCSD) Rural Health Outreach Program
  May 2009
  The MCSD Rural Health Outreach Program provided a wide range of health promotion and disease prevention activities including nursing offices in every school, annual health screenings for all students, dental care, mental health services, community education, annual scoliosis screenings for sixth through eighth grade students, and annual vision, height, weight, and blood pressure screenings.
• Monroe Health Foundation Dental Clinic
  May 2009
  Good oral health habits can be developed at an early age. However, many children and adolescents living in rural areas do not have sufficient access to affordable dental health services. This is especially true in the area surrounding Monroeville, Alabama, where children and adolescents covered by Medicaid experienced numerous barriers to receiving oral health education and treatment services.
• Around the Country: Clinic Serving Low-Income Children Inspires Rural Dental Practice
  February 2009
  Describes how a small dental clinic has met the needs of children living in rural, underserved Georgia counties.
• Community Dental Care
  July 2008
  Community Dental Care provides dental care and preventive programs in a culturally and linguistically sensitive manner to low income and ethnic minority families to improve the overall health and quality of life for its patients.
• Sanford Dental Clinic Canby
  July 2008
  The departing dentist was unable to sell his private practice and the community was going to be without local service so a dental clinic became part of the Sanford Canby Medical Center to provide local dental services.
• St. Joseph’s Community Dental Clinic
  July 2008
  The St. Joseph’s Community Dental Clinic serves patients receiving Medical Assistance or Minnesota Care. The hospital-based clinic emphasizes comprehensive services.
• One-Stop Shop for Mind and Body
  June 2007
  Designed to simplify access to care in Newaygo County Michigan, the Baldwin Family Health Care center is combining health care and human services in a one-stop shop for the mind and body.
• Matagorda-Wharton Health Access Consortium
  January 2007
  This project addresses the all-around need for better care and care access in a medically underserved area of Texas.
• Community Health Services Consortium Project
  January 2007
  A consortium of three parties are working together to provide basic primary care and dental services to a target population of adults and children with incomes under 200 percent of the federal poverty level who live in the area of Willard, Huron County, Ohio, as well as the southeast corner of Seneca County and the northeast corer of Crawford County.
• School-Based Health Centers Expansion Consortium
  January 2007
  Bassett Healthcare and six school districts have formed a Consortium that seeks to expand and enhance their School-Based Health Centers (SBHC) to include dental and mental health care programs and community outreach services.
• North Platte Dental Clinic
  January 2007
  This is to be a permanent dental clinic in North Platte, Nebraska, to serve Medicaid recipients and low-income self-paying residents.
• Eastern Shore Oral Health Action Network (ESOHAN)
  January 2007
  The primary goal of the ESOHAN is to address disparities in access to, and use of, oral health care services for children and low-income families.
• Rice Regional Dental Clinic
  January 2007
  The goal of the Rice Regional Dental Clinic is to increase access to dental care for uninsured and underserved residents in the 12-county service area of west central and southwest Minnesota.
• Connections Rural Health Initiative
  January 2007
  This projects main goal is to provide health care and human services for low-income children, youth, and families in two rural counties of central Kentucky.
• South Central Dental Project
  January 2007
  This project will address a tremendous unmet need for dental care for the low-income people in the area, and will also pilot a dental program model integrated with medical care now provided by the participating clinics.
• West Kentucky Dental Health Project
  January 2007
  The West Kentucky Dental Health Project (WKDHP) is a collaborative community-driven project that aims to build an infrastructure in 12 counties in rural western Kentucky to address early childhood caries and dental caries.
• Floyd County Dental Clinic
  January 2007
  The Floyd County Health Department Regional Dental Health Clinic was designed to provide access to oral health services in the following areas: Preventive care, restorative care, emergent care, nursing home services, fluoride varnish care, conscious sedation, and services under general anesthesia for five counties in Northwest Georgia.
• Rural Health Network of Monroe Co., FL, Inc. Project
  January 2007
  This project has entered into local communities with an intent of not duplicating services, but to create service access where those services may be lacking, and more importantly, to work within and without a network framework to improve health care services where possible.
• Nelson County Rural Health Outreach
  July 2005
  This Rural Health Outreach Program launched a school nursing program that placed registered nurses in each of the six Nelson County public schools as well as creating a supplementary health education program provided by a registered nurse who traveled to each site.
• Facilitating Health Care for Special Needs Children in Southwest Washington State
  July 2005
  The project consortium developed survey instruments, policies, procedures, and data forms and then contacted health departments, schools, and local medical and service providers to introduce project services and encourage referral of children with special needs.
• Rural Health Initiative (Stevens Point, Wisconsin)
  July 2005
  This project produced several innovative solutions to the lack of affordable dental care in the area by providing dental health services to low-income residents including: outreach, transportation to dental appointments using Head Start buses, and preventative fluoride supplements.
• Community Care Clinic
  July 2005
  Four network members funded and established a clinic to link existing health care providers and social services agencies to address and provide for the medical, emotional, and health education needs of individuals and families in seven counties designated Health Professional Shortage Areas.
• Expansion of Rural Dental Health Care Services in Macoupin and Montgomery Counties, Illinois
  July 2005
  Grant funds allowed this coalition to step up development of the dental clinic's comprehensive oral health services by purchasing equipment, expanding their hours, developing the clinic as a satellite teaching site, providing assistance to families newly eligible for Medicaid and offering oral health education to children in primary grades at all local schools.
• Healthy Kids Clinic
  July 2005
  Three local school districts, two local health departments, one nonprofit health agency, and all local area physicians and dental providers formed a consortium to provide health and dental services to students in the schools regardless of income or insurance status.
• Something to Smile About: Preventive Dental Care Project for Garrett County
  July 2005
  This network was established to provide dental health care to underserved individuals by utilizing existing private providers and providing additional dental care service through a community dental health center, coordinate community efforts to negotiate with managed care organizations (MCOs) and recruit needed health providers to the area, and develop and conduct a comprehensive education campaign promoting preventive dental health care.
• Farmworker Case Management Across Borders
  July 2005
  This project's overall objective for the migrant and seasonal worker populations was to increase their access to health services and specifically: (1) to increase management of their chronic diseases; (2) to increase completion of their treatment for communicable diseases; (3) to reduce their need for emergency dental care; and to increase their access to vision care.