The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced $9.3 million in funding to dental education programs that deliver oral health care to HIV-positive patients.
 
The 66 awards, funded under the HIV/AIDS Dental Reimbursement Program of the Ryan White CARE Act, reimburse dental education programs for non-reimbursed costs incurred in treating patients with HIV infection.  The CARE Act was enacted in 1990 to improve care and services for low-income and uninsured and underinsured people living with HIV/AIDS. 
 
“Many uninsured HIV-positive patients likely would receive no oral health care without this program,” said Elizabeth Duke, administrator of HHS’ Health Resources and Services Administration, which oversees the program. 
 
In 2004, Dental Reimbursement programs cared for more than 31,000 patients living with HIV, and dental students and residents provided close to 239,000 hours of direct clinical oral health services to these patients.  The programs also reported that 47 percent of their patients had no other source of payment or insurance for oral health care.
 
The Dental Reimbursement program has awarded $94.5 million in funding to dental education programs since 1997, and total CARE Act funding since FY 2001 exceeds $9.85 billion.   More than 571,000 individuals access life-sustaining care and services each year under the CARE Act.
 
A list of awards is attached.
 

Ryan White CARE Act Fiscal Year 2005 HIV/AIDS Dental Reimbursement Program
Organization	City	State	Award
University of Alabama, School of Dentistry	Birmingham	Ala.	$20,694.46
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Dentistry	Los Angeles	Calif.	60,941.08
University of Southern California, School of Dentistry	Los Angeles	Calif.	275,535.72
Highland General Hospital, Dept. of Dental and Oral Surgery	Oakland	Calif.	293,485.43
University of California, San Francisco, School of Dentistry	San Francisco	Calif.	107,245.86
University of the Pacific, Dugoni School of Dentistry	San Francisco	Calif.	561,901.92
Yale-New Haven Hospital, Dept. of Dentistry	New Haven	Conn.	4,250.95
Howard University, College of Dentistry	Washington	D.C.	80,332.43
Washington Hospital Center	Washington	D.C.	44,875.37
University of Miami, Div. of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery & General Dentistry	Miami	Fla.	1,079,950.58
Emory University, Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery	Atlanta	Ga.	7,243.87
Medical College of Georgia, School of Dentistry	Augusta	Ga.	115,501.83
University of Illinois, College of Dentistry	Chicago	Ill.	214,089.43
University of Kentucky, College of Dentistry	Lexington	Ky.	55,159.45
University of Louisville, School of Dentistry	Louisville	Ky.	640,155.05
Louisiana State University, School of Dentistry	New Orleans	La.	161,222.38
University of Maryland, Baltimore College of Dental Surgery	Baltimore	Md.	18,609.60
Boston Medical Center, Dental GPR Program	Boston	Mass.	212,222.13
Boston University, Goldman School of Dental Medicine	Boston	Mass.	521,349.28
Children's Hospital, Dept. of Dentistry	Boston	Mass.	5,917.39
Harvard Dental Center	Boston	Mass.	35,296.26
Tufts University, School of Dental Medicine	Boston	Mass.	101,070.29
University of Detroit Mercy, School of Dentistry	Detroit	Mich.	116,103.86
Hennepin County Medical Center	Minneapolis	Minn.	59,404.84
University of Mississippi Medical Center, School of Dentistry	Jackson	Miss.	2,526.09
Truman Medical Center, Lakewood	Kansas City	Mo.	1,362.64
University of Nebraska Medical Center	Omaha	Neb.	15,095.33
Hackensack University Medical Center	Hackensack	N.J.	12,896.97
UMDNJ - New Jersey Dental School, Special Services Clinic	Newark	N.J.	200,168.12
St. Joseph Hospital and Medical Center	Paterson	N.J.	15,589.98
Bronx-Lebanon Hospital	Bronx	N.Y.	587,454.37
Jacobi Medical Center	Bronx	N.Y.	128,797.18
Montefiore Medical Center, Dept. of Dentistry	Bronx	N.Y.	289,503.22
North Central Bronx Hospital	Bronx	N.Y.	4,052.87
St. Barnabas Hospital, Dept. of Dentistry	Bronx	N.Y.	211,482.66
Kings County Hospital Center	Brooklyn	N.Y.	113,776.41
Long Island College Hospital	Brooklyn	N.Y.	10,972.91
Lutheran Medical Center, Dept. of Dental Medicine	Brooklyn	N.Y.	714,728.11
The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Dept. of Dentistry	Brooklyn	N.Y.	69,745.67
Woodhull Medical Center, Dept. of Dentistry	Brooklyn	N.Y.	152,854.57
Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Dept. of Dental Medicine	Brooklyn	N.Y.	27,194.41
Erie County Medical Center, Dept. of Dentistry	Buffalo	N.Y.	20,611.56
New York Hospital Queens, Dept. of Dentistry	Flushing	N.Y.	82,704.39
Jamaica Hospital Medical Center	Jamaica	N.Y.	199,630.63
Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers	Jamaica	N.Y.	277,882.65
North Shore University Hospital, Dept. of Dental Medicine	Manhasset	N.Y.	7,568.81
Long Island Jewish Medical Center	New Hyde Park	N.Y.	23,065.87
Columbia University, School of Dental & Oral Surgery	New York	N.Y.	132,539.02
New York Medical College, Dept. of Dental Medicine	New York	N.Y.	37,027.80
New York University, College of Dentistry	New York	N.Y.	180,248.73
St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital, Center for Comprehensive Care, Dental GPR Program	New York	N.Y.	322,637.83
The Mount Sinai Hospital, Dept. of Dentistry	New York	N.Y.	66,876.83
Strong Memorial Hospital, Dept. of Dentistry	Rochester	N.Y.	13,368.80
Westchester County Medical Center, Dept. of Dentistry	Valhalla	N.Y.	45,234.81
University of North Carolina, School of Dentistry	Chapel Hill	N.C.	21,296.49
Case Western Reserve University Dental School	Cleveland	Ohio	4,940.90
Oregon Health & Science University, School of Dentistry	Portland	Ore.	137,094.33
Lehigh Valley Hospital, Dental Dept.	Allentown	Pa.	28,505.86
Temple University, School of Dentistry	Philadelphia	Pa.	56,894.88
University of Pennsylvania, School of Dental Medicine, Oral Medicine Clinic	Philadelphia	Pa.	124,266.91
York Hospital Dental Center	York	Pa.	7,594.96
University of Puerto Rico, School of Dentistry, GPR Program	San Juan	P.R.	1,669.22
Baylor College of Dentistry, Texas A&M University Health Science Center	Dallas	Texas	169,564.60
Caruth School of Dental Hygiene, Baylor Coll. of Dentistry, Texas A&M Univ. Health Sci. Ctr.	Dallas	Texas	831.27
University of Utah, School of Medicine, Dental GPR Program	Salt Lake City	Utah	11,822.54
University of Washington, School of Dentistry	Seattle	Wash.	8,930.34
Total:			$9,333,571.00