As a result of ABCD, in 2018, 55 percent of Medicaid children under age six accessed dental care—making Washington a national leader in the percentage of these young children receiving such care.
Public health officials worry that the populations that these centers serve — mostly people with low incomes and immigrants — aren’t getting proper health care and testing, may be unable to quarantine themselves and could contribute to spreading the coronavirus to the wider population.
Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday announced new guidance for medical services to resume — such as visits to dentists and family medical practitioners — that is intended to protect against outbreaks of the new coronavirus.
In honor of the 75th anniversary of community water fluoridation, the ADA Council on Advocacy for Access and Prevention’s National Fluoridation Advisory Committee will offer a series of four Zoom webinars in July that will include continuing education credit for each.
The COVID-19 outbreak and the subsequent lockdown have hit oral health in more ways than one.
Governor Jay Inslee signed SB 5976, which allows Washington state’s nationally-recognized ABCD Dental Program to expand care for children with disabilities up to age 12.
Community health centers—once a small dot on a giant health care landscape—have become essential to the functioning of the U.S. health system in medically underserved urban and rural communities.
Arcora has a website, dentistlink.org, where you can go if you’re looking for a dentist who’s seeing patients now.
A resource for people in need of emergency and urgent dental care is available while many dental offices are closed in response to COVID-19.
Spokane County has a legacy of innovation in oral health care that extends over a quarter of a century.