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Successful Integration Efforts

New York State School-Based Comprehensive Oral Health Services Project: Collaboration with North Country Family Health Center Anne Varcasio , R.D.H., M.A. Public Health Specialist Bureau of Dental Health New York State Department of Health Albany, NY. Successful Integration Efforts.

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Successful Integration Efforts

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  1. New York State School-Based Comprehensive Oral Health Services Project: Collaboration with North Country Family Health Center Anne Varcasio, R.D.H., M.A. Public Health Specialist Bureau of Dental Health New York State Department of Health Albany, NY

  2. Successful Integration Efforts Effort 1: Single enrollmentform. Effort 2: Dental and health electronic records are integrated.

  3. Challenges to Integration Challenge 1 • Integration has limits because of the differences between school-based health center and school-based dental programs. Challenge 2 • Preventive care is easier to integrate than treatment in a school setting.

  4. Strategies Used to Address Challenges Challenge 1 • Integrationevaluation tool was incorported into a performance-management tool to track progress, identifyproblems. and implement improvementstrategies. Challenge 2 Collected data and evaluated oral healthindicators. • % of enrolled students who are caries free. • % of enrolled students who received at least a single sealant. • % of available students enrolled in the school-based dental program. • % of students having at least one dental visit. • % of students for whom the treatment plan is completed within 12 months.

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