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A Roadmap for Delivering Child Care in Agricultural Communities (2019). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This workbook is designed to help you identify challenges and assets in your agricultural community, as well as help you understand how these factors play a role in accessing child care services. This workbook also offers important resources you can use to overcome common barriers and suggests where to find more information. More Details...

Mobile Dental Units for School-Based Dental Care: Promising Practice (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Gaston Family Health Services in North Carolina established a robust school-based dental program utilizing mobile dental units. This promising practice discusses the health center's mobile dental program to increase access to care for school children. More Details...

Oral Health Infrastructure Toolkit: (2019). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: In support of the FY19 HRSA Oral Health Infrastructure (OHI) funding, NNOHA developed this OHI Toolkit with resources to help health centers navigate through the funding opportunity. More Details...

Herramientas para la Infraestructura de Salud Oral: (2019). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: NNOHA desarrolló estas herramientas para apoyar la oportunidad de financiar la Infraestructura de Salud Oral (AF19) y servir como guía que los centros de salud pueden utilizar en sus esfuerzos para mejorar la infraestructura y proveer nuevos servicios integrales de salud oral o mejorar los existentes. El desarrollo de estas herramientas también incorpora la información recopilada durante las sesiones regionales de retroalimentación para la Expansión del Servicio de Salud Oral (OHSE, por sus siglas en inglés) que la HRSA celebró durante el 2018. Los centros de salud pueden usar estas herramientas para evaluar su preparación para la expansión del servicio de salud oral. Además, proveen enlaces a los requisitos, reglamentos y recursos de la HRSA y ofrecen estrategias para mejorar y expandir la infraestructura de los centros comunitarios de salud, ya sea que ya ofrezcan los servicios dentales in situ o que no tengan servicios dentales en la actualidad. More Details...

Oral Health and Diabetes for Patients Experiencing Homelessness: Fact Sheet (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NNOHA and the National Health Care for the Homeless Council partnered to develop this fact sheet on oral health and diabetes for patients experiencing homelessness. This purpose is to highlight linkages between periodontal disease, diabetes, and homelessness, as well as address, frequently asked questions related to understanding and caring for individuals who are experiencing homelessness. More Details...

Implementing Mobile Dental Services in an Elder Care Facility: Promising Practice (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Harbor Health Services in MA identified a need for oral health care for the elderly population in their community. As a result, they implemented a program to offer dental services in an elder care facility in their community. This promising practice describes their program and lessons learned. More Details...

Implementing a Pediatric Teledentistry Program: Promising Practice (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Finger Lakes Community Health in New York established a successful teledentistry program. The teledentistry program focuses on providing pediatric dental care since. This promising practices will discuss lessons learned for this program. More Details...

Establishing a Dental Clinic in a Hospital Emergency Department: Promising Practice (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This promising practice follows Community Health Center of Franklin County in Massachushetts. This health center established a dental clinic in a hospital emergency department as an emergency room diversion strategy for patients experiencing dental problems. More Details...

UDS Sealant Measure FAQ (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Find answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about the HRSA UDS Sealant Measure for children ages 6-9 for dental caries. Developed in consultation with oral health specialists and HRSA staff. More Details...

Update on the HRSA UDS Sealant Measure - December 2018 (2018). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In 2015, HRSA introduced the first oral health clinical quality measure to the UDS, with the UDS Sealants Measure. This session will highlight the 2017 UDS data results for the dental sealants measure. Topics to be included: common challenges health centers have experienced in developing, modifying, and/or implementing clinical workflows and procedures to report on the measure. Best practices and work-arounds to address data collection and reporting challenges will be shared for those health centers that are not yet using the EDR vendor-developed solutions for reporting on the measure. More Details...

NNOHA Health Center Workforce Survey Analysis of 2018 Results (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NNOHA conducts a survey every 5 years to its members on the trends of the dental workforce in health centers. The most recent survey is from 2018. This document provides an analysis of the results from this survey. More Details...

Increasing Access To Care thorugh Tele-Dentistry: Promising Practice (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Teledentistry is an emerging trend among health centers to expand access to dental care. This promising practice will discuss the story of Ravenswood Family Health Center in California and their use of the virtual dental home model. More Details...

Calories, Cavities, and Kids: The Role of Dental Professionals in Addressing Childhood Obesity (2018). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description:  The webinar addresses the role of dental professionals in addressing childhood obesity More Details...

Payment Innovation and Health Center Dental Programs: Case Studies from Three States (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: As dental care reimbursement follows the trends of healthcare overall towards value-based payment reimbursement, lessons from pioneers in dental payment innovation will inform effective health center strategies that will both strengthen the dental safety network and improve the oral health of the communities they serve. This document outlines interviews from organizations in three states on how health center dental programs are adapting clinical care systems under payment innovation incentives. More Details...

Employing Dental Therapists in an FQHC: A NNOHA Promising Practice (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This promising practice tells the story of a community health center in Minnesota who hired dental therapists to increase access to their dental services. More Details...

Increasing Oral Health Access through Clinic Expansion: Promising Practice (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This promising practice describes key points and lessons learned when a large community health center expanded dental services into a new area. More Details...

Increasing Access To Care Through Contracting for Dental Services: Promising Practice (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This promising practice describes how a community health center in Wisconsin utilized contracting with local dentists to expand dental services at the health center. More Details...

Promising Practice: Ohio Hills Dental Program Redesign (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Ohio Hills Health Services is a FQHC in Eastern Ohio. In 2014, Ohio Hills underwent a comprehensive evaluation of its dental program. They were given a dental performance improvement plan. This promising practice outlines their dental program redesign and lessons learned. More Details...

Dental Dashboard User's Guide (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This User's Guide is a companion to support the implementation and use of the NNOHA Health Center Dental Dashboard. This document will give details about how to collect data, instructions for the online dashboard, and specifics of the measures. More Details...

Dashboard Collaborative Pilot Change Package (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NNOHA launched the Dashboard Quality Improvement Learning Collaborative to enhance the quality of oral health services in health center dental programs. The health centers in this learning collaborative utilizes the Health Center Dental Dashboard measures. This change package shares the ideas and promising practices tested to improve on these dashboard measures. More Details...