Community Dental Health Coordinators

Mark Koday DDSChief Dental Officer- Yakima Valley Farm Workers ClinicDirector- Northwest Dental ResidencyPartner- Dental Quality Consulting LLC

MiQuel McRae RDHCommunity Dental Health CoordinatorTooth BUDDS Founder

Imagine a World Where You’ve Solved the Access Problem

The Yakima County Story

Yakima Co. Oral Health Statistics 3-5yr Olds

*Untreated decay @ state level was 17%

How can This Happen With Full Access?

The Current Access Paradigm is Financially Unsustainable

7.8 Million dollars average per year for treating the 0-5 year old population in Yakima County- Washington Health Care Authority data

We’ve Achieved Access But Still Failed the Populations We Serve!!!

What’s wrong?Drill and fill mind set-failure to stop the diseaseOnly partial medical/ dental integrationRisk assessment without risk follow-up32% of the Medicaid eligible children did not see a dentist once in the past year No real preventionNo case management

The Community Dental Health Coordinator-The Missing Piece

Bringing Understanding of Dental Disease to Schools

501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization EIN 81-4460839

I. Marketing Plan

II. Management Plan

III. Financial Plan

IV. Strategic Plan

The assignments required in the CDHC program were directly integrated into this plan-------->

GRANTS

Logistics Model

Solomon Elementary School Grades K-52017 2018

% of children with decay 69% 30%# of teeth with decay 193 76

…one bite at a time!

Contact Information

MiQuel McRae RDH

928-965-1534

toothbuddsinc@gmail.com

toothbudds.com

Mark Koday DDS

(509) 949-2278 markk@yvfwc.org

Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic-http://www.yvfwc.com/

Northwest Dental Residency http://www.yvfwc.com/join-our-team/residency-programs/northwest-dental-residency

Dental Quality Consulting LLC-http://dentalqualityconsulting.com/