Innovations in Oral Health and Primary Care Integration
A compendium from the Primary Care Collaborative
Integrating primary care and oral health is critical to improving population health and addressing health inequity. A new compendium provides case studies and innovative ways that clinicians, community members, and public health are working together to create oral health using the lens of the Primary Care Collaborative’s Shared Principles of Primary Care. This new compendium explores innovative ways to integrate oral health and primary care to provide greater oral health access across the U.S. healthcare system.
Learn about how innovative leaders, health professionals, and organizations are using new strategies
to advance oral health integration including:
- Apple Tree Dental
- Marshfield Clinic
- Indian Health Service Community Health
- Kaiser Permanente Care Gap
- Finger Lakes Health Center Teledentistry Model
- COMTREA Health Center
- Into the Mouths of Babes
- And Many More!
– A Report Highlighting the Mechanisms and Scope of Integration Efforts
The link to the YouTube video is in the back end, but having trouble publishing.
*NIIOH’s executive director, a consultant to the Primary Care Collaborative’s initiative to advance oral health and primary care integration, chaired the project advisory group of employers, payors, educators, consumer groups, government, and oral health and primary care professionals who each brought their unique perspectives to the project’s integration framework, exemplary cases, and Call to Action.