{"id":74600,"date":"2020-01-28T10:01:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T17:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/2-montezuma-county-dental-programs-receive-grants\/"},"modified":"2020-01-28T17:01:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T17:01:54","slug":"2-montezuma-county-dental-programs-receive-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/2-montezuma-county-dental-programs-receive-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Montezuma County dental programs receive grants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=082567a4-ba0e-4283-95fd-ab217c373c4c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Dr. Joseph Vreeken works on a patient in June 2019 at the Frontier Community Health Clinic at 101 S. Maple St. in Cortez. Frontier Community Health Clinic has been awarded a $200,000 grant to expand to expand access to reach 1,250 more patients.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Dr. Joseph Vreeken works on a patient in June 2019 at the Frontier Community Health Clinic at 101 S. Maple St. in Cortez. Frontier Community Health Clinic has been awarded a $200,000 grant to expand to expand access to reach 1,250 more patients.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Two dental programs operating in Montezuma and Dolores counties were awarded funding from Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation, which this month announced $3.5 million in grants to an array of oral health programs across the state.<\/p>\n<p>Frontier Community Health Clinic, operating clinics in Dove Creek and Cortez, was awarded $200,000 to expand access to reach 1,250 additional patients and to connect them to medical and behavioral health services.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Montezuma County Public Health Department received $76,000 to purchase equipment to outfit a second dental operatory to double the size and reach of its current practice.<\/p>\n<p>Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation has provided a total of $3.5 million in funding over three years to 31 Colorado nonprofits to support projects that create accessible oral health care and advance oral health equity.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Colorado Health Institute, less than 60% of Montezuma County residents have dental insurance and 20% reported cost as a barrier to receiving oral health care in 2017. The 2019 CHI Health Access Survey also found 29% to 35% of county residents did not visit the dentist last year.<\/p>\n<p>A variety of social factors \u2013 including race and ethnicity, income, geography, age, housing and food insecurity \u2013 impact  oral health and their overall well-being.<\/p>\n<p>Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation awarded grants to programs across the state that have identified solutions that address oral health disparities aligned with the foundation\u2019s focus areas: access to oral health care, prevention of tooth decay and strengthening the connection between oral health and overall health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frontier Community Health Clinic awarded $200,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,28,2665,29,1269],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-74600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-health-organisations","tag-newsletter","tag-nonprofits"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74600"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=74600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}