Financials

In addition to the Financials chapter of the NNOHA Operations Manual, there are many other resources that are useful in financing health center oral health services for new dental programs:

• NNOHA and Capital Link’s webinar on planning and financing dental expansion. Capital Link is a HRSA National Cooperative Agreement awardee that works with health centers and primary care associations to provide support in financial management.
• NNOHA’s webinar on Financial Management for Health Center Oral Health Programs.
• With any dental program, it is essential to analyze financial impacts of different scenarios. The CareQuest Institute for Oral Health and National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center have created an Interactive Budget-Planning Workbook to assist with these cost comparisons.

Many health centers have expanded oral health access through service expansion. NNOHA’s promising practice, Increasing Oral Health through Clinic Expansion features a health center who expanded their dental clinic using the HRSA 2016 Oral Health Service Expansion funding. NNOHA’s promising practice, Expanding Scope: The Swedish Community Specialty Clinic describes a health center’s experience with expanding their scope of practice to provide advanced dental services.