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2025 JAN 11 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Research findings on Opioids are discussed in a new report. According to [...]

INTRODUCTION In 2000, the Surgeon General's report titled 'Oral Health in America' concluded that although common oral diseases are preventable, many people struggle to access oral health care in the [...], This report explores the changing landscape of oral health care delivery in the United States, highlighting the evolving role of dental hygienists. The 2021 National Institutes of Health report "Oral Health in America: Advances and Challenges" has become a key milestone in addressing oral health inequities, acknowledging the important role that dental hygienists could play in expanding innovative care models, and promoting medical-dental integration (MDI). The Rainbow Model of Integrated Care offers a framework to examine facilitators of MDI care models, revealing supportive policies, interprofessional collaborative practice, incremental change, and local leadership as some of the crucial components needed for success. Dental hygienists emerge as catalysts for change, as such, the overarching aim of this report is to contribute to the broader conversation about optimizing oral health care accessibility through integrated care models led by dental hygienists. Keywords dental hygienists, medical dental integration, oral health inequities, access to care, interprofessional collaborative practice

INTRODUCTION Dental caries remains the most prevalent and preventable disease affecting children in the United States as well as globally. The severity and prevalence of caries among children also disproportionately [...], Access to high-quality, preventive oral health care is fundamental for an individual to achieve positive health outcomes. Recognizing that health is influenced by where a person lives, it is important to consider how systems of care must adapt to meet the changing needs of a community over time. Medical-dental integration is a critical component designed to enhance and broaden the oral health care delivery model. MORE Care[R] is a framework for communities to leverage their resources and relationships by providing tools and resources to integrate preventive oral health services into primary care settings. This report will show how local stakeholders advocated for an innovative approach to improve oral health gaps for children in Ohio. The MORE Care Ohio pilot is expanding access to preventive oral health services by featuring medical-dental integration to close patient care gaps and build an integrated oral health network. Providing a framework for medical and dental teams to collaborate, seven clinical practices (three medical and four dental) agreed to participate in a 9-month learning collaborative and 16-months of performance monitoring. Keywords medical dental integration, collaborative care, access to care, medical providers, dental providers

INTRODUCTION As the first state to implement a state oral health program nearly 100 years ago, North Carolina (NC) has been a leader in oral health even though oral health [...], CareQuest Institute for Oral Health's mission is to improve the oral health of all. One way to achieve this is through programmatic initiatives, which train dental clinics to provide equitable, integrated and accessible care for their communities. The Community Oral Health Transformation (COrHT) Initiative, allowed CareQuest Institute to collaborate with the North Carolina Oral Health Collaboration (NCOHC) and Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of North Carolina Foundation to implement and support the initiative in North Carolina. This mixed methods study was designed to collect quantitative and qualitative data while 11 dental clinics and a control clinic participated in the program through the end of the program. Quantitative data included patient demographics, claims data, and financial and data measures. Descriptive statistics of participating clinics and the control clinic were analyzed, and aggregated clinic data showed improvements in patient care delivery measures. Qualitative interviews were also conducted at midpoint and conclusion, and an outcome evaluation was completed. This short report will provide readers with results from the COrHT Initiative, with an emphasis on medical-dental integration (MDI) as an integral component of comprehensive, person-centered care. The evaluation of programmatic strengths and weaknesses has been included to identify the potential for future implementation, sustainability, and policy making. Keywords access to care, oral health equity, oral health care, oral health policy, medical dental integration, person-centered care

2024 DEC 7 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Perceptive Imaging, part of Perceptive Group, announced that Radialogica, LLC has joined [...]

Canada and China are set to expand nonstop flight capacity between the two countries, aiming to revive passenger traffic and enhance trade relations. Following multiple discussions, the Civil Aviation Administration [...]

2024 OCT 19 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Ambetter from PA Health & Wellness, a product offered by a Centene [...]

Anita Ravi, a family medicine provider in New York City, decided to begin offering abortion services at her clinic, PurpLE Family Health, which serves survivors of gender-based violence such as [...]

2024 OCT 3 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- Ovia Health by Labcorp (Ovia) announced the expansion of its women's health solutions to [...]

Momentum for PBM reform was among the hot topics at a pharmacy roundtable conducted by Chain Drug Review during the NACDS Total Store Expo this summer in San Diego. Retailers, [...]

This month, MLO is republishing the original panic-critical value article (1) in its annual Clinical Laboratory Reference supplement. A critical laboratory value represents a pathophysiologic state at such variance with [...]

In February 2014, Charu Raheja was out on the town in Miami celebrating a friend's birthday when she suffered what she thought was a migraine headache but was in fact [...]