NNOHA is pleased to introduce its Health Information Technology Resource Guide for Community Health Center Dental Programs. The Guide provides technical assistance on several IT topics including a process for selecting management software and an electronic dental record for your community health center. Other topics include information on teledentistry, electronic prescribing, information security, integrating the dental system with the medical system, and much more. Links are available within the Guide to a new HIT Workbook which provides templates for creating forms CHCs can use in their information system search process. Published January 2022

Live webinar 9/25/19  

As part of the 2019 HRSA Oral Health Infrastructure funding, NNOHA is offering a series of four webinars on various infrastructure enhancements for new or enhanced integrated oral health services. The first webinar of the series will focus on brick and mortar expansion. This webinar will feature Capital Link and two Oral Health Service Expansion awardees: Terry Reilly Health Services, and Project HOME. Capital Link is a HRSA National Cooperative Agreement grantee that provides assistance to health centers in capitalization. Capital Link will discuss capitalization strategies for health centers. Terry Reilly Health Services, ID, will discuss their previous dental clinic expansion of adding a dental suite into a medical clinic. Project HOME, PA, will discuss how they expanded the number of operatories in their dental clinic

This  document highlights NNOHA resources that may be beneficial for a Health  Center or safety-net organization considering starting up an oral health  program and/or applying for an Oral Health Expansion Grant.

This promising practice describes key points and lessons learned when expanding a dental clinic or building a new one through a HRSA expansion grant.

This promising practice describes how one health center is improving access to care through a process redesign.

The NNOHA Operations Manuals include six chapters to support health center dental programs.

This NNOHA toolkit provides guidance on new start-ups for direct dental services. The toolkit is a collection of resources from NNOHA and outside organizations.

This Toolkit highlights NNOHA resources that may be beneficial for a new Dental Director/Dental Program Manager or new oral health program.

This document provides a summary of the assessment of Health Centers without oral health/dental programs and what the barriers are to expansion.

Dentist shortages, lack of dental insurance, and too few dentists accepting Medicaid have contributed to a lack of access to oral health care across the country, especially for the underserved. As a result, innovative ways of delivering oral health care are emerging. One approach to improving access is the creation of the midlevel dental provider. Midlevel providers are currently practicing in Alaska and Minnesota and have been recently authorized in Maine. This NNOHA webinar, hosted on June 30, 2015, explores the factors that are behind the dental care access problem in the U.S. and explains the four midlevel provider models that are being used in parts of the country to expand access to care. An update about current state laws and legislative interest from the states is also explained. The recording includes the question and answer segment of the webinar with dentists who have worked directly with midlevel providers in Alaska and Minnesota.

This site  highlight’s the ADA’s “Best Management Practices for Amalgam Waste”, a  series of amalgam waste handling and disposal practices.

Learn about Bright Smiles for Bright Futures, a promising practice that provides free emergency and preventive care, and up to $600 allowance for restorative and/or periodontal care for as many as 400 pregnant women per year.

This fact-sheet lists 8 characteristics of successful Health Center oral health programs.

This promising practice describes how Swedish Community Specialty Clinic, working in conjunction with community partners, provides complex oral surgery procedures that safety net clinics are unable to provide for their non-insured and/or low-income patients.

A follow-up to the first session, “Financial Management of Health Center Oral Health Programs,” this webinar covers several topics more in-depth and answers some frequently asked questions.

This webinar provides basics of financial management for effectively operating Health Center oral health programs.

This promising practice describes the “Going Green in Dental” initiative, which aims to increase recycling and create and promote sustainable green practices across dental sites.

HRSA In Your State provides summary data fact sheets about HRSA’s activities in each State, County, and Congressional District.

This worksheet in the Safety Net Dental Clinic Manual enables you to analyze and save the analysis of the financial impacts of different decisions, assumptions and costs specific to your situation.

Maintained by the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center and the Ohio Department of Health, Oral Health Program, Ohio Safety Net Dental Clinics is a comprehensive online portal to the tools and information necessary to start and maintain the operations and delivery of health care services in safety net dental clinics in Ohio.

This document highlights resources that may be beneficial for a Health Center or safety-net organization operating with an Oral Health Expansion Grant.

This manual is designed to help dental clinic staff with all aspects of clinic development and ongoing operations. Chapter topics include partnerships and planning, facility design and staffing, financing, clinic operations, quality improvement, and program sustainability. Links to sample policies, efficiency tips, professional standards, supply lists, floor plans, design tips, equipment photographs, customizable budget worksheets, funding strategies, quality improvement plans, fact sheets, and websites are included. Updates to the Web site’s contents are made continually. Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. Written by Ohio Department of Health, Bureau of Oral Health Services, U.S. Indian Health Service, and Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors.