To improve access to and use of comprehensive, high-quality oral health care for pregnant women, infants, and children at high risk for oral disease, the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) funded the Networks for Oral Health Integration (NOHI) Within the Maternal and Child Health Safety Net. Three projects were awarded funding for a 5-year period (2019–2024).
In 2020, COHSII convened a series of meetings with the three NOHI projects to facilitate the development of an environmental scan tool to gain knowledge about factors that could impact the integration of oral health care into primary care at the state/jurisdiction level with the purpose of informing the work of the NOHI projects. The scan included questions focused on scope of practice of medical and dental providers, Medicaid payment, and policies and regulations that impact the target population’s oral health. In 2021 and 2022 COHSII facilitated the NOHI projects’ review and revision of the environmental scan tool, and the NOHI projects conducted a second (project years 2–3) and a third (project year 4) environmental scan. This chartbook presents the results of the third environmental scan. COHSII analyzed the environmental scan data and prepared the chartbook with content reviewed by NOHI projects and state dental directors.