ORAL HEALTH INTERNSHIP
ORAL HEALTH VALUE-BASED CARE
AACHC completed the preceptorship with ASU-DNP TRAINING WORKSHOP: CREATING A student. She presented her project at an AACHC Staff meeting in June 2019. The project focused on the oral VALUE-BASED ORAL HEALTH CARE health of pregnant women in several FQHCs and was so successful that another ASU-DNP student picked DELIVERY SYSTEM This well attended workshop was given by a team up the work to continue a second phase. from the DentaQuest Partnership for Oral Health Advancement and included speakers from AACHC and some of our CHCs. This is the beginning of a GRANTS Learning Collaborative that will engage CHCs from NOHIIN (National Oral Health Integration and many states.
Innovation Network)
2019 is the fourth year of the NOHIIN. This year we held a strategic planning meeting to identify priorities for the next three years. Applications for year five are due January 3rd. The 14 state Core Team decided to hold a side-bar session at CHI (August) for CEOs and C-suite directors. We had 42 attendees (three from Arizona) who voted for two of the five strategic areas to also be their PCA priority: access to care and value-based payment transformation. A follow-up side-bar session was held at the PCA/HCCN meeting (November) and a full session is planned for the Policy and Issues Forum in March of 2020.
HRSA grant 2019-2024 Rocky Mountain Network of Oral Health (RoMoNOH)
This five-year project will develop a regional network of oral health medical-dental integration with 30 Community Health Centers (CHCs) across Arizona, Colorado, Montana and Wyoming. The RoMoNOH CHCs will partner with and receive support from Denver Health (RoMoNOH lead), the Primary Care Associations (PCAs) within each of these states. The target population for this project will be pregnant women and children ages 0-2 years. AACHC will work with seven CHC sites.
ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES CONTRACT
AACHC contracted with ADHS to coordinate and implement the 2019-2020 Healthy Smiles Healthy Bodies Survey. This Arizona survey will screen children in kindergarten and third grade from a representative sample of public elementary schools in non-reservation communities in Arizona. Screening results are compiled to determine health status and focus for future health programs. 20
PRESENTATIONS, PROJECTS, ADVISORY BOARDS
• AACHC was honored to have Dr. Paul Glassman speak at our 2019 Annual Meeting on the topic of Virtual Dental Homes and how teledentistry can improve the reach of the CHCs in rural and unserved areas. • The Oral Health Program Manager is involved in the DentaQuest’s Partnership OPEN (Oral Health Progress and Equity Network). OPEN re-branded from OH2020. OPEN has grown to over 2200 members across the US. Its targets and goals align with oral health priorities of NOHIIN and AACHC. Jan Grutzius was elected to serve on the advisory Board of Directors during OPEN's transformation to a 501c3 (2020-2022). • Other conferences attended (some giving presentations, some involved in planning) include: − March 21, 2109, Tucons, AZ - Silver Diamine Fluoride Workshop − April 15-18, 2019, Memphis, TN - National Oral Health Conference − April 29-May 2, 2019, Denver, CO - NOHIIN Strategic Planning − May 20-23, 2109, Houston, TX - DQP Mid-Year meeting − August 15-19, 2019, Chicago, IL - Community Health Institute (CHI), PCA side bar session − October 13-16, 2019, Las Vegas, NV - NNOHA Annual Conference − October 21-25, 2019, Baltimore, MD - DQP OPEN Annual Conference − November 20-21, 2019 - RoMoNOH Learning Network Kick-off
