Healthy Teeth, Healthy Children A Pennsylvania Medical/Dental - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

A program of the Pennsylvania Chapter

• f the American Academy of Pediatrics

Promoting  Medical Dental Collaboration  Oral Health Literacy  EPIC -Educating Physicians in the Community

Healthy Teeth, Healthy Children A Pennsylvania Medical/Dental Partnership

Our Mission The Pennsylvania Coalition for Oral Health is a statewide coalition working to improve the oral health status of vulnerable populations in Pennsylvania.

 Reform and Improve the Medicaid Administration and Payment of Oral Health Services  Strengthen the State’s Oral Health Workforce  Adopt an Integrated Approach to Preventive Oral Healthcare

Healthy Smiles, Happy Children: A Dentist for Every Child

Head Start Oral Health Initiative

Healthy Smiles Task Force Goals

• Establish a dental home for every child, starting at Age 1
• Ensure access to proper follow-up dental treatment
• Educate children, staff, and families about the

importance of oral health to overall health

• Forge medical-dental collaborations that benefit

children and providers in local communities

#1 Priority for Head Start: Access to Comprehensive Care in 90 Days

• MCO-Head Start Liaison Project
• Partnership with DPW/OMAP, Head Start programs, MCOs
• MCO Liaisons join Healthy Smiles Task Force, attend meetings
• DentaQuest Dental Benefits Administrator-Head Start Webinar
• Oral health education for families/educators
• “Cavity Free Kids” training (250 trainers so far)
• Medical-Dental provider education
• “Connect the Dots” training for Age 1 Dentistry
• Medical-dental providers understand Head Start needs
• Building medical-dental referral networks

 spreading strategies for fluoride varnish application by

primary care providers

 ensuring oral health is part of the patient-centered

medical home

 convening an oral health summit to engage traditional

and non-traditional stakeholders in oral health at the CHC

 establishing a dental directors' committee to support

• ral health leadership in member centers.

AND MORE

Cornerstone Care formally created the

Greene County Oral Health Task Force

Temple Kornberg School of Dentistry AmeriHealth Caritas Seminars Wright Center - Program Director,

Olapeju Simoyan, MD, MPH, BDS

Others

HTHC Medical Dental Collaboration

2 approaches

 Work group that is surveying medical residency

programs to assess oral health education

 Members of work group will meet with individual

program directors

 Explain available options such as EPIC, PACT, SFL

AND

 Education of primary care providers

EPIC – Educating Physicians in the Community

Developed by the PA Chapter of American

Academy of Pediatrics to accelerate change in a variety of pediatric clinic areas

Peer professionals visit PCP offices Provide clinical information, practical tools

and supporting resources

Obesity – 74 presentations per year, impacts

• ver 300,000 children. Breastfeeding – 400

PCPs trained

Oral Health In Your Office

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• u and your office staff

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Early Childhood Caries (ECC) is the most common pediatric infectious disease. Schedule your FREE on-site presentation:

√ This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM √ Fluoride Varnish Information √ On-site presentation for the prevention of cavities in patients under age 5

Learning Objectives

 Understand Etiology and Progression of Early Childhood Caries  Provide Anticipatory Guidance to Parents or Caregivers  Perform Oral Health Risk Assessment  Understand the role of fluoride in prevention of decay  Apply Fluoride Varnish to children  Integrate oral healthcare practices into your office  Early referral to dental home

Healthy Teeth Healthy Children has provided on site presentations to 31 PCP offices from 11/2012 – 8/2013 Offered a full day conference in October that reached 175 participants from 11 offices 217 primary care providers have been educated through individual site visits, Grand Rounds, and conferences to perform oral screening, risk assessment, referral and fluoride varnish application

Results of EPIC trainings

Evaluation process – ongoing Three-month and six-month telephone interviews to follow-up Out of the 38 practices that participated in a presentation in oral health during the first eight months of trainings, 35 of these practices participated in the interviews. 17 out of the 35 practices were implementing at three-months post presentation for a 48.5% implementation rate. 60% implementation rate at six-month follow up DPW data shows an increase in claims submission for D1206

Ultimate medical dental collaboration

Medical and Dental Professionals as presenters Pediatric dentists who will provide on-site

technical assistance to medical offices

MCO contacts COHAs

Eve Kimball, MD, Chapter Oral Health Advocate – 610-463-8775, ekimball@aacpp.com Thomas J. Maroon, MD, Chapter Oral Health Advocate – 724- 832-0850, thomasmaroon1@gmail.com Bonnie Magliochetti, Program Director 484-446-3059, hthc@paaap.org

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