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Grantee Organization: Choptank Community Health Systems Inc.
Jurisdiction Served: Caroline 
Grant and Amount: 18-001 ($240,000) 
Grant Project Description: This project would address dental workforce challenges in a rural area of the state by expanding access to pediatric dental services through a new dental practice in Denton. The project involves a partnership with the University of Maryland School of Dentistry to recruit a dental fellow to provide pediatric dental services in their existing clinics in Federalsburg, Goldsboro, and Cambridge. This project is innovative, could offer a replicable model in other rural communities facing dental care shortages, and is financially sustainable. 
Organization Contact Information: choptankhealth.org/

Grantee Organization: Greater Baden Medical Services Inc.
Jurisdiction Served: Prince George’s 
Grant and Amount: 18-008 ($300,000) 
Grant Project Description: This project would increase access to dental care and nutritional counseling for low-income adults in Prince George’s County, the county with the lowest concentration of dental professionals per 100,000 residents when compared to other jurisdictions in Maryland. The project would partner with Lyft to provide rides to appointments for residents lacking access to transportation and would provide nutritional counseling aimed at assisting individuals in choosing to make healthier lifestyle choices. 
Organization Contact Information: http://www.gbms.org/​

Grantee Organization: Western Maryland AHEC.
Jurisdiction Served: Washington 
Grant and Amount: 18-016 ($70,000) 
Grant Project Description: This project would expand an existing successful dental program that currently serves two jurisdictions (Allegany and Garrett) into a third jurisdiction (Washington County). The program would provide access to reduced price dentures for low-income residents of Washington County who face a number of barriers accessing health and dental care. A Community Health Worker would work with vulnerable residents to overcome the social determinants of health which stand in the way of accessing care. Participants would also be screened for somatic health and social support needs. 
Organization Contact Information: http://www.ahecwest.org/​

Grantee Organization: West Cecil Health Center

Jurisdiction Served: Cecil 
Grant and Amount: 17-013 ($325,000) 
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant is being used to implement an expanded dental program in Cecil County, a dentally underserved area of the state, through an innovative partnership involving the University of Maryland Dental School. Under a cooperative agreement, West Cecil has agreed to take over operations of the Dental School's clinic, which will maintain its status as a clinical teaching site with five pre-doctoral students and four hygiene students. Based on West Cecil’s status as a Federally Qualified Health Center, the program is designed to be sustainable after CHRC grant funds are expended. CHRC grant funds are being utilized to support staff salaries and supplies for the clinic. 
Organization Contact Information: www.westcecilhealth.org

Grantee Organization: Anne Arundel County Department of Health
Jurisdiction Served: Anne Arundel 
Grant and Amount: 17-014 ($200,000) 
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant is being used to expand access to emergency dental services for low-income adults in Anne Arundel County, with a particular emphasis on diverting preventable dental-related ED visits. The target population is low-income Medicare and Medicaid adults. The project will build on the existing REACH Program in Anne Arundel by linking patients with private dentists and building the capacity of the existing dental clinic(s) at the Health Department to serve more residents. CHRC grant funding is being utilized to support the salary of a dental patient navigator and to provide discounted costs for dental services to program participants. 
Organization Contact Information: www.aahealth.org

Grantee Organization: Allegany County Health Department
Jurisdiction Served: Allegany 
Grant and Amount: 17-015 ($100,000) 
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant is being used to expand the capacity of the Allegany County Health Department’s adult dental program and improve the ability of the Health Department to respond to the dental emergency needs of adults going to the hospital ED. CHRC grant funding is being utilized to support staff salaries and supplies. 
Organization Contact Information: www.alleganyhealthdept.com

Grantee Organization: Health Partners
Jurisdiction Served: Charles 
Grant and Amount: 17-016 ($100,000) 
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant is being used to expand access to dental services in Charles County, a dentally underserved area of the state, by supporting the expansion of dental services at a new site in Nanjemoy. CHRC grant funding is being utilized to support staff salaries and supplies. 
Organization Contact Information: healthpartnersinc.org

Grantee Organization: Helping Up Mission
Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore City 
Grant and Amount: 17-021 ($150,000) 
Grant Project Description: This three-year grant is being used expand an existing program they have with the University of Maryland Dental School to help homeless residents secure comprehensive dental services.  This program will build on Helping Up Mission's existing partnerships with Towson University, the Health Alliance, Johns Hopkins Hospital, UMSOD, and the DHMH Office of Oral Health. CHRC grant funding is being utilized for staff salaries and to provide subsidized dental services from outside providers. 
Organization Contact Information: helpingupmission.org

Grantee Organization: Allegany Health Right
Jurisdiction Served: Allegany 
Grant and Amount: 16-001 ($50,000) 
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant is being utilized to expand AHR’s existing Dental Access Program and to serve low-income seniors and disabled adults. The program continues Allegany Health Right’s model of community outreach and engaging private dentists to provide dental services at a discounted rate of 50% - 80%. CHRC grant funding is being utilized to support the salaries of a community health worker and dental case manager and to provide discounted costs for dental services to program participants.  
Organization Contact Information: www.allhealthright.org​

Grantee Organization: Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Washington D.C.
Jurisdiction Served: Prince George’s 
Grant and Amount:16-002 ($200,000) 
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant is being utilized to open a new, comprehensive, four-chair dental clinic in Temple Hills, Prince George's County, to serve dental services to low-income residents. The applicant currently operates two other dental clinics in the region, and the new (third) proposed clinic is focusing exclusively on serving low-income and un/underinsured residents in Prince George's County. CHRC grant funding is being utilized to support the salary costs of the practitioners for the first two years after clinic opening. 
Organization Contact Information: www.catholiccharitiesdc.org/

Grantee Organization: Carroll County Health Department
Jurisdiction Served: Carroll 
Grant and Amount:16-003 ($70,000) 
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant is being utilized for a program to expand access to pediatric dental services in Carroll County by improving the administrative efficiency of the existing Carroll County Health Department Pediatric Dental Program. The grant funds are being utilized to support non-personnel costs, including equipment, staff training, and software/EMR costs, in order to modernize the outdated equipment of Carroll's existing dental program, support the administrative efficiency of the program, and enable the grantee to upgrade the practice management system. 
Organization Contact Information: http://cchd.maryland.gov/

Grantee Organization: Mountain Laurel Medical Center
Jurisdiction Served: Garrett 
Grant and Amount:16-004 ($125,000) 
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant is being utilized to support a program that will provide dental screenings and referrals to discounted dental care to patients of Mountain Laurel with chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease. Grant funds are being utilized to support the salary costs for program staff and dental supplies. Garrett County is one of the most dentally underserved areas in the state, and this program expands access to dental services and promote the integration of medical and dental care services in a primary care setting. 
Organization Contact Information: http://www.mtnlaurel.org/

Grantee Organization: Allegany Health Right
Jurisdiction Served: Allegany 
Grant and Amount:15-002 ($10,000 - Additional $90,000 funding provided by WMHS) 
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant is being utilized to expand the applicant’s existing dental program by the addition of a community health worker to target Medicaid adults who generate ED dental visits at Western Maryland Health System.  The proposal estimates that $24,000 in treatment funds each year will provide dental care services valued at more than $100,000 for up to 100 Medicaid adults for one year. Grant funds are utilized after Medicaid billing/reimbursement is sought, and are being utilized to support salary and dental treatment costs not covered by Medicaid. 
Organization Contact Information: www.allhealthright.org

Grantee Organization: Frederick Memorial Hospital 
Grant and Amount: 15-003 ($135,000) 
Jurisdiction Served: Frederick County
Grant Project Description: This three-year grant involves a partnership between Frederick Memorial Hospital and the University of Maryland Dental School (UMD), and seeks to reduce dental-related ED visits, which have increased over the last three years at Frederick Memorial. The applicant is utilizing funding to open a dental clinic. Grant funding is being utilized to cover a portion of overall costs of the new dental clinic (total project cost is $1.8 million over three years). Frederick Memorial will provide facility and operational expenses, and UMD has agreed to use the clinic as a rotational practicum site. UMD will provide faculty oversight of students. 
Organization Contact Information: www.fmh.org

Grantee Organization: Total Health Care, Inc.
Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore City 
Grant and Amount: 15-004 ($180,000) 
Grant Project Description: This three-year grant involves a new collaboration between Total Health Care and Mercy Hospital to ensure all pregnant women patients of Total who are seen by Mercy OB providers will receive the benefit of integrated OB and dental care. The Total dental proposal offers an innovative hospital-community partnership with Mercy and could serve as a model for other areas of the state. Grant funding is being utilized to provide "seed money" to hire a dentist who will provide oral health education sessions during 6-week pregnancy group sessions. 
Organization Contact Information: www.totalhealthcare.org

Grantee Organization: Health Partners 
Jurisdiction Served: Charles County
Grant and Amount: 15-005 ($250,000) 
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant enables Health Partners to begin billing for dental services and to allow the grantee to achieve long-term financial sustainability for its dental program. The grant builds on a past CHRC award to assist the clinic in transitioning from a grant-based revenue model to billing third-party payers for primary care services provided. Health Partners currently has two part-time dental hygienists and a volunteer dentist who is being credentialed as a Medicaid provider. The applicant proposes to transition their credentialed dentist (now volunteer) to a full-time dentist that can generate a fee-for-service revenue stream. Requested grant funds are being utilized to partially support salary costs of program staff. (This grant is also listed under "safety net capacity")
Organization Contact Information: http://healthpartnersinc.org/

Grantee Organization: Allegany Health Right, Inc. 
Grant and Amount: 14-005 ($90,000) 
Jurisdiction Served: Allegany County
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant supported the provision of dental services to disabled adults in Allegany County. The grantee serves as a referral and coordinating agency for underserved and uninsured adults in Allegany County. Funds were utilized to provide dental care services for underserved communities. Allegany Health Right has leveraged its CHRC grant and received a three year $374,000 grant award from HRSA to continue its outreach efforts for uninsured and underserved adults in the community.
Organization Contact Information: http://www.allhealthright.org/

Grantee Organization: Charles County Health Department 
Jurisdiction Served: Charles County
Grant and Amount: 14-006 ($260,000) 
Grant Project Description: This three-year grant supports a school-based dental program that screens children in the Charles County public school system and provide access to fluoride, dental sealants, and clinical services in an area of southern Maryland that is lacking in oral health safety net infrastructure. Grant funds are being utilized to support the salaries of a dentist, dental hygienist, dental assistant, and community health worker.
Organization Contact Information: www.charlescountyhealth.org

Grantee Organization: Frederick Community Action Agency 
Jurisdiction Served: Frederick County
Grant and Amount: 14-007 ($240,000) 
Grant Project Description: This three-year grant supports the provision of oral health care services to disadvantaged and low-income children and adults in Frederick County. The program also provides oral health education to participants. Grant funds are being utilized to support the salaries of project staff.
Organization Contact Information: www.cityoffrederick.com/Index.aspx?NID=183

Grantee Organization: Baltimore City Health Department 
Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore City
Grant and Amount: 12-003 ($58,428)
Grant Project Description: The two-year grant supported a partnership between the Oral Health Services Program and the Immunization Program in the BCHD to ensure at-risk children and families receive preventative oral health education and dental care at an early juncture in the child's development. The program enrolled 1,102 patients over the duration of the grant.
Organization Contact Information: http://baltimorehealth.org/

Grantee Organization: Walnut Street Community Health Center (Now Family Healthcare of Hagerstown) 
Jurisdiction Served: Washington County
Grant and Amount: 12-004 ($98,000) 
Grant Project Description: This three-year grant supported the expansion of the Healthy Smiles in Motion, a mobile dental van program. Grant funds were used to hire a dentist to provide oral health services to children through the program. Over the duration of this grant, Health Smiles in Motion enrolled 505 children and provided 639 visits. 
Organization Contact Information: http://www.walnutstreetchc.org/

Grantee Organization: Bel Alton Community Development Center
Jurisdiction Served: Southern Maryland 
Grant and Amount: 12-005 ($250,000) 
Grant Project Description: The two-year grant enabled Bel Alton to provide comprehensive dental screenings and oral health education to children in eight elementary schools in Charles County in the first-year of this grant and expand to schools in St. Mary’s and Calvert in the second year of the program. Funds were utilized to staff a team that provided information and referrals to children in need of dental services. 
Organization Contact Information: http://www.belaltonalumnicdc.org

Grantee Organization: Choptank Community Health System 
Jurisdiction Served: Caroline and Kent Counties
Grant Amount: 11-004 ($130,000) 
Grant Project Description: The two-year grant supported a partnership between CCHS and the Chester River Hospital Center to provide pediatric dental surgery services in Kent County, a Medically and Dentally Underserved Area (MUA). Grant funds were utilized to purchase equipment for the operating room and provided the “bridge” funding for the reimbursement differences between anesthesia costs and Medical Assistance reimbursement. This program provided care to 163 underserved children on the Eastern Shore with complex dental needs.
Organization Contact Information: www.choptankhealth.org

Grantee Organization: Health Partners, Inc. 
Jurisdiction Served: Charles County
Grant and Amount: 11-005 ($120,000) 
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant supported a dental program and transportable dental unit to serve the uninsured and underinsured residents of Charles County. Grant funding was utilized to support staff salaries and supplement the services provided by volunteer dental providers. Over the duration of the grant, the program served 1,421 patients over 5,498 visits. 
Organization Contact Information: www.healthpartnersinc.org

Grantee Organization: Access Carroll, Inc. 
Grant and Amount: 11-006 ($300,000) 
Jurisdiction Served: Carroll County 
Grant Project Description(s): This two-year grant supported the launch of a dental program at AC, which serves the low income residents of Carroll County. Grant funds were utilized to open a full time family dental clinic as part of the Access Carroll integrated care model. Access Carroll leveraged the CHRC grant to secure an additional $162,451 in capital support from the Weinberg Foundation. Over the duration of the program, 2,114 individuals received dental services through 3,498 visits. 
Organization Contact Information: www.accesscarroll.org/index.asp

Grantee Organization: Spanish Catholic Center
Grant and Amount: 09-012 ($300,000) 
Jurisdiction Served: Montgomery County
Grant Project Description: The two-year grant supported a program providing services in an the Montgomery County Dental Pilot program. This included preventative, diagnostic, and emergency services, such as regular cleanings, x-rays, and extractions. Grant funds were utilized to enable Spanish Catholic Center to increase the number of days the program served patients from two to four, with one day exclusively dedicated to serving pediatric patients. This program served more than 4,130 individuals and leveraged an additional $90,000 in program funding. 
Organization Contact Information: www.catholiccharitiesdc.org/page.aspx?pid=357

Grantee Organization: Chase Brexton Health Services Inc. 
Jurisdiction Served: Howard County
Grant and Amount: 09-013 ($500,000) 
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant supported Chase Brexton in expanding services at the Columbia Center dental clinic for adult and pediatric patients. Grant funds were utilized to provide students with oral hygiene education, oral health screenings, fluoride varnish, sealants to molars, and referrals for dental services at Chase Brexton. Over the duration of the grant, the dental clinic served 4,708 patients through 5,716 visits. 
Organization Contact Information: www.chasebrexton.org

Grantee Organization: Allegany County Health Department 
Grant and Amount: 08-001 ($200,000) 
Jurisdiction Served: Allegany County 
Grant Project Description: This one-year grant supported increasing the existing dental program's capacity to serve children with Medical Assistance and to expand access to preventative health services and oral health education for children and their families. Over the duration of the grant, 248 patients were served through 1400 visits. 
Organization Contact Information: www.alleganyhealthdept.com

Grantee Organization: Baltimore City Health Department 
Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore City
Grant and Amount: 08-002 ($70,750) 
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant supported the enhancement of dental services at the BCHD Dental Clinic by hiring a Public Health Dental Hygienist, providing additional Spanish language training for a dental assistant and incorporating a language translation services. 
Organization Contact Information: http://baltimorehealth.org/

Grantee Organization: Carroll County Health Department 
Jurisdiction Served: Carroll County
Grant Amount: 08-003 ($29,030) 
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant funded a program that supported two pediatric dental projects. The first project expanded access to pediatric dental care by extended the dental clinic hours. The second project piloted an off-site Fluoride Varnish Program for children enrolled in the county Head Start program. Over 600 patients were enrolled over the duration of the grant. 
Organization Contact Information: www.carrollhealthdepartment.dhmh.md.gov

Grantee Organization: Choptank Community Health System 
Jurisdiction Served: Caroline and Kent Counties
Grant Amount: 08-004 ($300,000) 
Grant Project Description: This three-year grant provided support to expand Choptank's dental program. Funds were used to enhance a new seven-chair dental facility in Goldsboro, Md. The new facility provided care to 6,374 patients over the duration of the grant.
Organization Contact Information: www.choptankhealth.org

Grantee Organization: Garrett County Health Department 
Jurisdiction Served: Garrett
Grant Amount: 08-005 ($173,660) 
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant supported the Garrett County Health Department in funding Project Smiles to expand community dental services to low income, high-risk adults who lack dental care. The Health Department utilized a combination of community based dentists who provided donated/pro bono care and paid dental staff to provide care to uninsured adults. Over the duration of the grant, the program served 455 patients with 2,813 visits.
Organization Contact Information: www.garretthealth.org

Grantee Organization: Harford County Health Department
Grant and Amount: 08-006 ($435,564) 
Jurisdiction Served: Harford County
Grant Project Descriptions: This two-year grant supported Harford’s efforts to provide dental services to low-income and underinsured/ uninsured children. Grant funds were used to support program salaries and oral health education supplies. Over the duration of the grant, 3,558 patients were seen over 7,270 visits.
Organization Contact Information: www.harfordcountyhealth.com

Grantee Organization: Wicomico County Health Department 
Grant(s) and Amount(s): 08-007 ($301,250) 
Jurisdiction Served: Wicomico County
Grant Project Description: This two-year grant supported the relocation and expansion of the WCHD Village Dental clinic to improve access and increase its capacity to serve county residents. Grant funds were utilized to re-locate the clinic to a larger facility, increase the number of volunteer dental provider hours, implement a case management program, expand the clinic's hours of operation and increase the number of patients the clinic is able to serve. This program served more than 1,900 patients and leveraged an additional $46,340 in private and federal funding.
Organization Contact Information: www.wicomicohealth.org

Grantee Organization: Allegany Health Right, Inc. 
Grant and Amount: 08-017 ($82,350) 
Jurisdiction Served: Allegany County
Grant Project Description: This three-year grant a program to provide dental services for low-income residents with an urgent or developing dental problem. Allegany Health Right leveraged its CHRC grant and received a three year $374,000 grant award from HRSA to continue its outreach efforts for uninsured and underserved adults in the community.
Organization Contact Information: http://www.allhealthright.org/

Grantee Organization: Family Health Centers of Baltimore 
Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore City
Grant and Amount: 08-018 ($300,000) 
Grant Project Description: The three-year grant supported a pediatric dental program that provided screenings and oral health educations in area schools and Head Start Locations and linked students to a dental home at FHCB. Under this grant, FHCB was able expand the dental clinic to include more days and evening hours and added a part-time pediatric dentists to allow FHCB to serve more children.
Organization Contact Information: http://fhcb.org/

Grantee Organization: Kernan Orthopedics and Rehabilitation 
Jurisdiction Served: Baltimore City
Grant and Amount: 08-019 ($287,410) 
Grant Project Description: The two-year supported the Kernan Dental Service which is a teaching clinic for the University of Maryland’s Dental School. Grant funding enabled Kernan Dental Service to upgrade and replace worn and over-utilized equipment such as x-ray units and mobile dental carts and increase its capacity by adding personnel, an additional dental chair and equipping the operating room.
Organization Contact Information: www.kernan.org/dental/index.htm

Grantee Organization: Prince George’s Health Department
Jurisdiction Served: Prince George’s County
Grant and Amount: 08-020 ($299,164) 
Grant Project Description: This three-year grant supported the expansion of existing dental care resources in Prince George’s County for low-income children and their families to expand oral disease prevention and health promotion. Grant funds were utilized to staff a dentist, a dental hygienist, a dental assistant, and a case manager as well as support the School-Based Program's dental Sealant Program and the Early Childhood Caries Program at the Cheverly Health Center. 
Organization Contact Information: www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/health/

Grantee Organization: Anne Arundel County Department of Health 
Grant and Amount: 07-002 ($450,000) 
Jurisdiction Served: Anne Arundel 
Grant Project Description: This three-year grant supported the “Residents Access to a Coalition of Health (REACH” program which links low-income uninsured county residents to a network of primary care and specialist providers who provide services on a sliding fee scale. Grant funds were utilized to support the costs of opening a new dental clinic in Glen Burnie that provided basic dental care at reduced rates to individuals enrolled in the REACH program. This clinic allowed for Anne Arundel to provide dental services to an additional 1,300 individuals over the duration of the grant. 
Organization Contact Information: www.aahealth.org​