From Advocacy to Action An Oral Health Forum

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From Advocacy to ActionAn Oral Health Forum

• Funding Issues
• Dr. Bill Ryding
• HKPR and HPEC Health Units

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Setting the Stage

• Health Care System
• Funded by province
• Access issues shared by entire community
• Dental Health Care System
• Excluded from general health care system
• Funded through dental benefits and privately
• Inequitable access for marginalized population
• Community Health Centres
• Target marginalized populations
• Funding from province
• Cannot charge user fees

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Port Hope CHC

• Dental clinic included in
• Design
• Construction planning
• Construction budget
• Dental clinic excluded from
• Equipment budget
• Staffing budget
• Expectation from province for CHC to collaborate
  with local public health unit

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The Problem

• Operating a dental clinic is expensive
• Staffing needs
• Dentist
• Dental assistant
• Dental hygienist
• Dental care excluded from CHC budgets

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Equipping the Clinic

• Provincial funding
• Local monitory donations
• Equipment donations
• Collaboration with local public health unit
• Satellite office
• Use of Federal equipment funding

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Operating Funding

• Provincial funding
• Joint staff appointments with neighbouring CHCs
• CHCs allowed to charge fee-for-service
• CINOT
• OW ODSP
• Private dental benefits
• Fee schedule same as publicly funded programs

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Recommendations

• OOHA and CHCs to collectively lobby the province
  to
• Include dental care in CHC services
• Ensure CHCs have appropriate budgets
• Allow CHCs to charge fee-for-service
• Publicly funded programs
• Private benefit programs
• Personal payment