Fix-Location Dental Service Program
To provide free dental service for low-income and uninsured individual or family at Tzu Chi SJ facility
定點定時 針對低收入或沒保險的個人與家庭 提供免費牙醫服務
Background 計劃背景
•We have self-contained dental mobile clinics 大愛醫療車 •creteria.
The team is convinced dental is the most-needed service 我們深信牙醫服務的迫切需求 •
To complement our community medical and dental outreach program 與社區義診互補 提供更週全的服務 •
First step toward Community Clinics 社區門診中心試腳石 •
Spread great love and cycle of goodness 傳播慈濟大愛與善的循環
On-going Discussion Items
- Budget
- Qualification
- refered from external authorized partners or program
- refered from Tzu Chi Charity Group
- FPL of 150% to 300%
Under the guideline of Child Nutriotion Program, Food and Nutrition Servfices, US Department of Agriculture, Local Educational Agencies (County School Board, Charter School Administrators, etc) process application and each School maintains a roster of participants. There is no material proof of eligibility given to each student participant. Each Local Educational Agency may use different criteria to approve applications, such as Medi-Cal status, or income verification, etc. The details can be found in the following link:
http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/Governance/notices/iegs/EligibilityManual.pdf
Since patients are unable to present any material proof, Tzu Chi may need to call School administrator for verification of Eligibility before booking appointments.
- Facility layout and decoration - Visio-medical_waiting.pdf
- Training
- Operation support - Draft MedicalOfficeStaffing v2.xls
- Service Day - service hour 9AM to 4PM
- > dental service: dentist, DA, mobile van technician, RN and registration volunteer
- > non-dental service: 知客志工
- Non-service Day - reservation hour 10AM - 1PM, Mon to Fri
- > reservation, inquiry and on-the-phone qualification etc.: on-duty volunteer
- Clinics schedule: 5/16, 5/30, 6/20, 7/11, 8/8, 9/5, 10/3, 10/24, 11/7, 11/21, 12/5
Key milestones - Proposal due: 4/1(Fool's Day); Program announcement: 4/19; First service: 5/16
- Referral and community connection
ReferalAndEmergency.pdf
Please note that this document is informational only. At What situation referral should be made and Whom should be providing the information will need further discussion and training.
- Medical software
Settled Items
Service scope
For Outreach event and first year Fixed-location operation
· Screening / Triage, X-Rays
· Palliative Care
· Restorative---Amalgam, Composite, Pin Retention Capping, Temporary Filling
· Crown / Bridge Recementation
· I&D Abscess, Fistula/Apical Curettage, Non-complicated Extraction, Non-surgical Roots Remove
· Gross Scaling, Root Planning, Oral Hygiene Instructions
· Fissure Sealant, Prophylaxis, Topical Fluoride
Re-assessment after one-year operation at fixed-location
Beside the above services, may suggest including:
· Therapeutic Pulpotomy—Deciduous molar
· Root Canal Tx-single canal
· Stainless Steel Crown--- Deciduous molar
· Provisional Crown--- chair side
· Denture Repair /Reline----chair side
· Stay Plate / Flipper, Full/ Immediate Denture--- Lab
For Publicity Flyer
We provide the following limited dental services to alleviate imminent pain:
- emergency treatment and related examination and x-rays
- fillings
- non-surgical extraction
- dental cleaning, gross scaling for gum disease cases
- for age under 14----sealant, topical Fluoride
- oral hygiene instruction
We DO NOT DO
- Periodic preventive dental cleaning
- Denture, Crown, Bridge and its repair
- Root Cannel Treatment
- Surgical Extraction
- Gum Surgery
- Braces, Cosmetic Dentistry
Misc
- Health Center Program HRSA
- Key Health Center Program Requirement KeyHealthCenterProgramRequirements.pdf