North Carolina Oral Health Infrastructure and New Approaches

Daijah Davis
Daijah.Davis@bcbsncfoundation.org

The Oral Health Infrastructure and New Approaches Program will provide grants for safety net dental clinics in North Carolina to support replacing critical equipment and/or integrating new approaches to oral healthcare delivery.

Project examples include, but are not limited to:

• Critical infrastructure replacements or necessary upgrades, such as new tires for mobile unit or a new x-ray machine
• Additional mobile unit infrastructure to expand existing mobile work, particularly to serve a population that is challenging to reach in-clinic
• Additional dental chair for an existing clinic. This could include a specialized chair and other equipment for people with disabilities
• Intraoral cameras to support telehealth
• Patient experience software and staff time to implement the system, analyze data, and implement changes to increase patient satisfaction
• Supplies and initial staff time to implement a dental navigator program to support outreach to underrepresented communities, making initial and follow up appointments, and ensuring patients have transportation
• Supplies and initial staff time to integrate oral health services on location at another type of provider's office, such as a midwife, OB-GYN, pediatrician, primary care physician, or behavioral health

Eligibility requirements include:

• Safety net dental clinics, such as health departments, community health centers and 501(c)(3) clinics
• Bills Medicaid
• Provides a dental home
• Request reflects a plan to increase or preserve clinic efficiency and effectiveness

Highly preferred eligibility factors include:

• Clear analysis of equity
• Plan to increase or preserve access to care for a specific population
• Serving rural North Carolina counties
• Basic description of how the new strategy could be sustained beyond this funding opportunity

Award ceiling: $150,000
Project period: 18 months

A link to the application instructions is available on the program website when applications are being accepted.

Submit applications through the online grant system.

Applicant webinar recording