{"id":20518,"date":"2017-06-30T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T07:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/careringnc.org\/?p=20518"},"modified":"2021-10-09T19:08:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T19:08:18","slug":"innovations-in-oral-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/careringnc.org\/post\/innovations-in-oral-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"INNOVATIONS IN ORAL HEALTH CARE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/careringnc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Innovations-in-oral-health-care-300x232.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"572\"><br>\nThe Need Mecklenburg County has a population of more than one million people and vast financial, educational and cultural assets. It also has&nbsp;a strong network of health care resources. Nonetheless, the county&nbsp;faces substantial challenges when it comes to providing health care&nbsp;for thousands of low-income individuals without access to employer based&nbsp;health care or to a public insurance program.\n<p>The Solution Physicians Reach Out (PRO) is a non-profit program that provides&nbsp;medical and dental care to low-income, uninsured residents in&nbsp;Mecklenburg County. It does this by coordinating a network of&nbsp;doctors and dentists who volunteer to treat patients in their own&nbsp;offices.<\/p>\n<p>PRO is one of three programs run by Care Ring, the oldest privately&nbsp;funded health and wellness agency in North Carolina. Care Ring&nbsp;also manages a low-cost clinic, which serves roughly 3,000 people a&nbsp;year, and Nurse-Family Partnership, which has a team of nurses that&nbsp;provide home-based care. Care Ring is based in downtown Charlotte&nbsp;at the Children and Family Services Center with ample parking and&nbsp;conveniently located near the bus line.<\/p>\n<p>Care Ring Executive Director Don Jonas notes that PRO was modeled&nbsp;after a program that originated in Asheville and was developed by&nbsp;the Mecklenburg Medical Society. &#8220;It is important to recognize real&nbsp;genius and that there is a history of innovation that occurred before&nbsp;our time,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The people here-at Care Ring-figured out&nbsp;the machinery of how to make this work. It sounds simple, but it is an&nbsp;extraordinarily complex effort.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.wixstatic.com\/ugd\/43ae00_e0ba19a1dbe2422094026a67c091d710.pdf\">Read the full story here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#oralhealthcare #dentalprograms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Need Mecklenburg County has a population of more than one million people and vast financial, educational and cultural assets. It also has&nbsp;a strong network of health care resources. 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