HRSA Oral Health – A View from

the Horizon

Renée W. Joskow DDS, MPH, FAGD

Senior Advisor for Oral Health

Office of Special Health Affairs

Health Resources and Services Administration

• Integration of Oral Health with Primary Care

• Training, Scholarship and Loan Repayment

• Perinatal Oral Health

• Oral Health Measures, Metrics, and

Meaningful Use

Strategic Priorities

IOM Reports

Integration of Oral Health with

Primary Care

Integration of Oral Health with

Primary Care

• Interprofessional Oral Health Core

Clinical Competencies (IPOHCCC)

• NNOHA Pilot project

• Association of American Medical

Colleges curriculum

• American Academy of Pediatrics • Oral Health Quality Improvement Module

Integration of Oral Health with

Primary Care

• School Based Comprehensive Oral

Health Services

• Coordinating Center for

Interprofessional Education and

Collaborative Practice (IPECP)

• Teaching Oral Systemic Health

(TOSH)

Training, Scholarship and Loan

Repayment

• Bureau of Health Professions

• Bureau of Clinician Recruitment and

Service

Bureau of Health Professions

• Title VII, Section 748 of the Public

Health Service Act (PHSA)

• Pre-doctoral

• Post-doctoral

• Faculty Development

• Dental Fac. Loan Repay. (DFLRP)

Section 748 Programs:

Funding Summary

• By Discipline:

• General: $10,413,447

• Pediatric: $ 8,295,118

• Public Health: $ 541,502

• Hygiene: $ 186,830

• FY 2012 New and Continuation:

$19,436,887

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Bureau of Clinician Recruitment

and Service

• National Health Service Corps

• Loan Repayment Program

• Scholarship Program

• Faculty Loan Repayment

Perinatal Oral Health

Perinatal Oral Health • MCHB is developing a plan to expand the

Oral Health Care During Pregnancy: A National Consensus Statement

• Dissemination and implementation- June 2012

• Summary of Expert Workgroup Meeting- July 2012

• Oral Health Care During Pregnancy: A National

Consensus Statement- April 2013

• http://www.mchoralhealth.org/materials/consensus_

statement.html

Perinatal Oral Health

• There will be a specific session

Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Promoting Integrated Health Care and

Interprofessional Collaboration: The Oral

Health Care During Pregnancy National

Consensus Statement

Oral Health Measures, Metrics,

and Meaningful Use

HRSA Measures Management

Review Board (MMRB) Goals:

• Align and harmonize measures

• Attain measure parsimony

• Identify a “starter set” of quality

measures

• Selected 44 measures in 13 topic areas

HRSA Starter Set

•Children Who Received Preventive

Dental Care (NQF # 1334)

•Children Who Have Dental Decay or

Cavities (NQF # 1335)

http://www.hrsa.gov/healthit/

Oral Health Toolkit

Meaningful Use

• Integration of Oral Health with Primary Care

• Training, Scholarship and Loan Repayment

• Perinatal Oral Health

• Oral Health Measures, Metrics, and

Meaningful Use

Strategic Priorities

Contact Information

Renée Joskow DDS, MPH

Senior Advisor for Oral Health

Health Resources and Services Administration

301-443-6769

Rjoskow@HRSA.gov

www.hrsa.gov