New Community Care Partnership Serving Individuals with Disabilities

Penn Dental Medicine marked the official opening of its newest community-care site in February with a ribbon cutting ceremony at the Penn Dental Medicine at Woods Mikey Faulkner Dental Care Center. The Care Center is a partnership with Woods Services, a Pennsylvania- and New Jersey-based nonprofit organization that serves children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and acquired brain injuries. The Center is located within Woods’ Langhorne, Pa., campus.

“We are thrilled to be providing care within the Woods campus, serving the Woods residents and clients as well as others in the local community with disabilities,” says Penn Dental Medicine’s Morton Amsterdam Dean, Dr. Mark S. Wolff. “In addition, our students will be gaining invaluable experience in patient care.”

Postdoctoral students and faculty from Penn Dental Medicine’s Advanced Education in General Dentistry (AEGD) program are providing care in the Center, which features five dental operatories, quiet space for those needing a lower-stimulation environment, a waiting area and reception check-in, and conference room.

“The opening of Penn Dental Medicine at Woods Mikey Faulkner Dental Care Center continues Woods’ commitment to providing an integrated healthcare experience for our clients — an approach that optimizes outcomes for individuals,” said Tine Hansen-Turton, Woods President and CEO.

Along with six affiliate organizations, Woods provides integrated healthcare, education, housing, workforce development, behavioral health, and case management services to more than 22,000 children and adults who have complex medical and behavioral healthcare needs in the intellectual and developmental disability, behavioral, child welfare, and brain trauma public health sectors.

The Center adds to Penn Dental Medicine’s expanding community care programs, which will add another location later this year as part of the Public Health Management Corporation (PHMC) Public Health Campus on Cedar, located in the former Mercy Philadelphia Hospital building at 54th Street and Cedar Avenue in Cobbs Creek. Penn Dental Medicine will have an 11-chair care center there.

TOP: One of the School’s AEGD residents providing care at Woods Services.

ABOVE: Dr. Marc Henschel, Director of the School’s AEGD Program, at the Center ribbon cutting. He oversees the graduate students who are providing care at the Center.