Category: Oral Health

Children’s Dental Health: More than a February focus for Cass Community Health Foundation

By Katie Schroeder, RDH, BSDH on February 21, 2020
Director of Dental Programs
Cass Community Health Foundation

February is a time for groundhog shadows, Girl Scout cookies, and Valentine treats. It is also a time to raise awareness about the importance of oral health through National Children’s Dental Health Month. Since 2008, Cass Community Health Foundation (CCHF) provides dental screenings, oral health education, fluoride varnish treatments, and dental supplies to students in […]

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Allen County wins Culture of Health Prize

By David Toland on September 19, 2017
Executive Director
Thrive Allen County

It is with tremendous excitement that we announce that our home — Allen County, Kansas — has been named as a 2017 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize winner. The Prize honors communities for their unwavering efforts to ensure all residents have the opportunity to live healthier lives. And that certainly describes what […]

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Health Care, Healthy Communities, Mental Health Care, Oral Health, Policy, Safety Net, Social Factors, Tobacco

Using new tech to increase dental care access

By Gary Harbison on May 25, 2017
Executive Director
Missouri Coalition for Oral Health

We live in a time when technological changes are common. These changes induce both anticipation and anxiety. Rapidly changing use of technology is also a constant in our complex health care system. While we have seen increasing use of health care assisted by remote access to health specialists and increasing coordination between health providers over […]

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Oral Health

The dental community serving the local community

By Paul Roberts on August 3, 2016
Foundation and Outreach Director
Missouri Dental Association

The Missouri Mission of Mercy (MOMOM) is more than a free dental clinic. It’s tangible help. It’s giving at its best. That is why I love working on this grand scale inspirational project. Collectively we accomplish something together that we could never do alone. MOMOM is an intersection of three communities. Allow me to unpack […]

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Oral Health

Maintaining oral health is all about access

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By Gary Harbison on February 19, 2016
Executive Director
Missouri Coalition for Oral Health

Missouri is experiencing a renaissance in attention to oral health policy. Champions in the state legislature are working to ensure oral health policy is a relevant topic through legislation and through the oral health caucus. The Coalition’s annual oral health policy conference brings fresh innovation to the dialog inside and outside of the statewide network […]

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Oral Health

Decade of Difference: Reaching out to at-risk populations

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By Health Forward Blog Team on February 5, 2016

In addition to new general service clinics, the area also has benefited from an expansion in dental care access for special needs and elderly populations. Oral Health on Wheels, a 40-foot mobile dental clinic operated by Johnson County Community College, provides professional dental cleaning and other maintenance services to special needs populations. A dental services […]

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Adult dental benefits in Missouri Medicaid are moving forward

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By Gary Harbison on January 7, 2016
Executive Director
Missouri Coalition for Oral Health

On Tuesday of this week, Governor Jay Nixon made an announcement that oral health advocates, dental providers and – most importantly – adults currently eligible for MO HealthNet (Missouri Medicaid) have longed to hear: Missouri will provide MO HealthNet adult dental benefits. Now we must wait up to 90 days for the Centers for Medicare and […]

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Oral Health

A look back at 2015: What we learned about the next Decade of Difference

By Jane Mosley, PhD on December 23, 2015
Program and Evaluation Officer
Health Forward Foundation

For the past 18 months, Health Forward has been working on a project that examined how we’ve advanced health in our region over the past 10 years. The fruits of that labor is featured on our new website – Health ForwardDecadeofDifference.org. While most of the report focuses on changes that have occurred, we also heard […]

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Behavioral Health Care, Decade of Difference, Healthy Communities, Mental Health Care, Oral Health, Policy, Safety Net, Tobacco

The Little County that could

By Krista Postai on December 18, 2015
CEO & President
Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas

Just over 100 miles southwest of Kansas City, there is a county of just over 13,000 residents that has created a model for community health improvement. A county that admitted collectively that it needed to improve health outcomes. A county that was willing to ask for help. A county that rolled up its sleeves (and […]

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A Healthy 10, Health Care, Healthy Communities, Oral Health

Decade of Difference: expansion of oral health workforce

By Health Forward Blog Team on October 14, 2015

Ed. Note: This is a modified excerpt from our Decade of Difference report. Read more about the region’s health care workforce in our full report. Important developments throughout the dental workforce have played an essential role in supporting the expansion of the area’s oral health safety capacity. Increasingly, dental schools are reaching out to engage students […]

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A Healthy 10, Oral Health


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