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Section 2: Dental Partnership Activities
Networks Created
The 12 Partnership grantees vary in their design, but all have created a network
of dental schools, health departments, and community agencies to engage PLWH
into dental care and train dental professionals to serve them. Across the 12
sites:
- Around 50 major community agencies are part of networks
that operate in 13 states.
- Ten of the 12 projects are local and cover a city,
county, or multi-county area. Two, those in Mississippi and Colorado, are
statewide programs.
Partnership grantees use an array of techniques to make their networks of dental
care work. Communications. Sharing of data. Coordinated planning. To illustrate:
- The University of Louisville worked with agencies funded
under multiple Ryan White Parts. Notably, coordination efforts and awareness
raising with other Ryan White programs enabled them to secure funding from their
collaborators to help pay for items on a “wish list” of dental needs.
- The Louisiana State University project used an
electronic medical records system created under Ryan White Special Projects and
National Significance (SPNS) funding to streamline provider access to patient
records.
- A Dental Liaison staff position was created at Boston
University to facilitate communication and receipt of care. This staff position
helps ensure that primary care doctors refer their HIV patients for dental care
and facilitate follow-up that patients require. The Liaison also checks to see
if dental patients have a primary care physician and make it to their
appointments.
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