Seminar - 90 Minutes

Thinking Outside the Box and Inside the States: Innovative Approaches from MCHB’s Perinatal and Infant Oral Health Quality Improvement Grant Program

Presenter(s)

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  Dana Fischer, CHES

  Children's Health Alliance of Wisconsin
• MC

  Mayte Canto, DDS, MS, MPH

  Dental Officer, Oral Health Program
  Health Resources and Services Administration Maternal and Child Health Bureau
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  Tara Fowler, PhD, MPH

  Deputy Director
  ALTARUM

HRSA’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) funded the multi-year Perinatal and Infant Oral Health Quality Improvement (PIOHQI) grant program to improve oral health services for pregnant women and infants at high risk for oral disease. Largely based on capacity and setting, grantees followed unique approaches to integrate oral health care into existing service models. Activities included workforce development, community outreach, practice modification, and stakeholder engagement. MCHB funded the Center for Oral Health Systems Integration and Improvement (COHSII) to provide technical assistance to grantees. To better understand the relationship between program activities and the successes and challenges faced by grantees, MCHB engaged Altarum to conduct a comprehensive program evaluation of the 16 grantees. In a panel moderated by COHSII, presenters from MCHB, Altarum, and the Wisconsin PIOHQI grantee will discuss successes of the projects and challenges they faced, strategies for effective support, and preliminary findings of the program evaluation.

 

Learning Objectives:

• Describe state level efforts to integrate oral health and primary care for pregnant women and infants.
• Attendees will be able to describe the assortment of available federal resources and technical assistance services and how these helped grantees work toward their integration objectives.
• The strategies grantees employed will be described and attendees will learn about what worked in the variety of contextual environments in which they were employed.