ACCOMPLISHMENTS…
Community Outreach Grants Awarded to LMC Dental
School Health Program Grant
Received in March, 2014
$500,000 over 2 years
LMC Dental was the recipient of
a two-year $500,000 grant from
the Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) to provide
dental equipment for the School
Health Program, which provides
oral healthcare to over 23,000 city
children annually in Manhattan,
Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the
Bronx.
The funding enabled LMC Dental
to outfit 44 school-health based
dental clinics with new equipment,
replacing old, outdated, and nonrepairable equipment in 16 existing
health clinics. Later this year, new
equipment will be placed in four
new school health clinics slated
to open. Equipment has included
20 new dental chairs, X-ray units
and developers, delivery units, and
cavitrons (ultrasonic cleaners), as well
as more than 100 hand pieces.
“This equipment has allowed us
to provide care to an even greater
number of children than in years past.
And the children notice. They see the
importance placed on oral health.
The state-of-the-art equipment
has also impacted the lives of our
providers. They no longer have to
work with broken equipment or lack
essential tools to do their job. This
grant has provided a better overall
experience for our patients and
providers. We are looking to add five
new school programs by the end of
2014 and another three programs in
2015,” reported Dr. Lynn Gargano,
Director of Dental School Health.
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) – Dental
Faculty Loan Repayment
$2.85 million, 5 years
To ensure that indebtedness does
not prevent qualified dentists
from pursuing a career in dental
education, LMC Dental procured
a grant from HRSA to repay the
education loans of selected current
or new faculty in the General and
Pediatric Dentistry programs.
Faculty Development Training
$3.0 million, 5 years
This HRSA grant provides for further
development and training of LMC
Dental’s General and Pediatric faculty
to develop skills as educators in
Public Health, Business or Healthcare
education. Training for the current
program – a Master’s Degree in
Education and Certificate program
designed in partnership with A.T.
Still – began in December, 2011 at
the Annual Faculty Development
Conference in Mexico.
Ryan White HIV/AIDS Grant
$768,727
The Ryan White Program awarded
LMC Dental a grant to incorporate
protocols into the dental residency
curricula so that dental healthcare
professionals are well-trained in the
safe and compassionate treatment of
HIV/AIDS patients.
Community-Based Dental
Partnership Grant
$244,604, year 9 of 10 years
This grant provides for rapid oral
HIV/AIDS testing at point-of-patient
service.
Dental School Health
Program Grant
$500,000 over 2 years
LMC Dental received a
$500,000HRSA gra