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Section 5: Appendices
Program Design Requirements
The Community Based Dental Partnership Program’s goal is
“to increase access to quality oral health care for people with HIV in areas
that remain underserved, especially in communities without dental education
programs, and to increase the number of dental providers capable of managing the
oral health needs of patients with HIV, through collaborative community-based
partnerships.”
Dental Partnerships must include the core components listed
below. The intent of these requirements is to ensure that services are delivered
in a community setting, that dental students are adequately trained, and that
the effectiveness and impact of the Dental Partnerships are assessed.
Oral Health Service Delivery
- Collaboration among dental or dental hygiene education
programs and community-based oral health providers and partner agencies to
deliver oral health care for patients with HIV in community settings, especially
in unserved and underserved rural and urban areas.
- Linking patients to HIV services and coordination with
other HIV service providers to ensure a continuum of care.
Provider Education and Clinical Training
- Provision of hands-on training experiences for dental
and dental hygiene students and dental residents and incorporation of HIV
management and community-based service-learning experiences into the dental
education curriculum.
- Supervision of students and residents by community-based
dentists who may serve as adjunct faculty and provide an understanding of the
oral health needs of HIV-positive populations.
- Giving students and residents a public health
perspective and social context for health care along with a greater cultural
understanding of the health needs of vulnerable populations.
Program Assessment
- Assessment of the partnership’s effectiveness in meeting
the oral health needs of HIV-positive individuals in the community.
- Assessment of the partnership’s effectiveness in
training students and residents to manage the oral health care for people with
HIV.
- Assessment of the program to document the impact on the
lives of HIV-positive people and demonstration that these funds are resulting in
direct benefit to patients, including the availability of services not
previously available or accessible.
The Dental Partnership grantees work collaboratively with
community-based dental providers (such as community-based organizations or
agencies that currently provide or plan to provide oral health services, or
private practice dental providers) to address the unmet oral health needs of
vulnerable populations with HIV. The documentation of unmet HIV oral health
needs or underserved HIV positive populations is based upon data submitted
within the grantee’s application that describes need as presented by Planning
Council Needs Assessments, local and CDC epidemiologic data, availability of
current HIV health care including oral health services, and description of
proposed population and community.
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