Two FQHCs Obtain Grants, Develop Youngsters’s Oral Well being Care Companies

Posted on September 23, 2022 in In the Community

Two Federally Certified Well being Facilities (FQHCs) in Illinois not too long ago had been awarded grants totaling $500,000 by Delta Dental of Illinois Basis to assist enhance the oral well being of Illinois kids as a part of the Federally Certified Well being Middle Capability Constructing Program funded by Delta Dental of Illinois Basis and Illinois Youngsters’s Healthcare Basis. This system goals to deal with the necessity for complete oral well being providers by growing well being consciousness, training and entry to care.

Delta Dental of Illinois Basis’s Recipients of the FQHC Capability Constructing Grants embrace:

• Pillars Group Well being, LaGrange, PCH Riverside – New Oral Well being Entry, $400,000
• Heartland Worldwide Well being Middle, Chicago, Early Childhood Caries Prevention Program at HHC Devon, $100,000

Illinois Youngsters’s Healthcare Basis additionally not too long ago awarded grants to seven different FQHCs as a part of this initiative.

FQHCs characterize the spine of the system for offering healthcare to essentially the most weak kids and households in Illinois. FQHCs present sufferers with high quality, built-in, holistic care inclusive of medical, dental, behavioral well being, pharmacy and/or different important providers. 

Delta Dental of Illinois Basis and Illinois Youngsters’s Healthcare Basis acknowledge the importance of FQHCs and worth the partnerships created towards creating more healthy communities and an opportunity for each little one in Illinois to develop up wholesome.