An Overview of:
Federal Funding Opportunities for Oral Health
Yvonne Knight, J.D.
Senior Vice President
Advocacy and Governmental Relations
ADEA Policy Center
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA)
HRSA’s Oral Health Initiatives
HRSA’s oral health workforce programs support:
• Students, residents and practitioners
• FY 2011 HRSA’s Bureau of Health Professions
awarded $31.1 million in new and continuing
grants
Oral Health Funding Opportunities
Pre-doctoral Training Programs
• Funding supports 15 programs
• FY 2012 $4.3 million
Post-doctoral Training in General, Pediatric
and Public Health Dentistry
• FY 2012 $9.3 million in commitments
• Funding supports 27 programs
Faculty Development in General, Pediatric, and
Public Health Dentistry and Dental Hygiene
• FY 2012 total funding, $4.5 million
• Funding supports 8 programs
Dental Faculty Loan Repayment
• FY 2012 $1.1 million was paid out
• Funding supports 6 programs
State Oral Health Workforce Program
For FY 2012:
• Funding of $2.2 million annually (3-year grant)
• Grant supports 26 programs and 7 dental
schools
Residency Training in General and
Pediatric Dentistry*
• Funds the planning, development, operation
of, and participation (including financial
assistance to residents) in approved residency
and advanced education programs in general
or pediatric dentistry
Geriatric Training for Dentists
• Program supports 13 grantees with more than
$8 million through fellowships and other
training efforts
• Through this program 4,073 older adults
received dental care in academic year
2009-2010
Teaching Health Center Graduate
Medical Education (THCGME)
• FY 2011 provided services to 4 million patients
in Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program
GME-Children’s Hospitals
GME-Children’s Hospitals
• FY 2011 $8.4 million
• Program supported 22 pediatric dental
residency programs
• 165 pediatric dentistry residents
Scholarships for Disadvantaged
Students
Scholarships for Disadvantaged
Students (SDS)
• FY 2011 approximately $44 million
• Program supported 25 schools in the dentistry
discipline
• Program supported 11 schools in the dental
hygiene discipline
National Health Service Corps Loan
Repayment Program
National Health Service Corps (NHSC)
Loan Repayment Program
FY 2012 the program supported:
• 4,267 awards (2,342 new and 1,925
continuation contracts)
• Total, $169 million.
National Health Service Corps
Scholarship Program
National Health Service Corps (NHSC)
Scholarship Program
FY 2012 the program supported:
• 222 awards (212 new and 10 continuation contracts)
totaling $42 million.
Health Professions Student Loan
Health Professions Student Loan
• Program supports participating institutions
that provide long-term, low interest loans to
full-time students with financial need to
pursue a degree in a medical discipline,
including dentistry
Teaching Health Center Graduate
Medical Education (THCGME)
The Affordable Care Act (ACA):
• Grants awarded under this Act are
for a term of not more than 3 years
and the maximum award may not
be more than $500,000
Electronic Health Records (EHR)
Incentive Programs
Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Programs
• Most dentists will only be eligible to receive incentive
payments from the Medicaid Meaningful Use
Incentive Program
• Any dentist qualifying for incentives under the
Medicaid program must meet the criterion that “the
eligible provider must have at least 30 % patient
volume attributable to those who are receiving
Medicaid”
ARRA - Equipment to Enhance Training for Health
Professionals - Training in Primary Care Medicine and
Dentistry - Residency
ARRA - Equipment to Enhance Training for Health ProfessionalsTraining in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry - Residency
This grant program supports:
• academic administrative units
• residency training
• predoctoral training
• faculty development training
• general and pediatric dental residency
training program areas
Thank You!
HRSA Grants
Grant
Description
Totals
Grant program supports 15 programs to plan, $4.3
million
develop, and operate, or participate in an
Program
Pre-doctoral Training in
General, Pediatric and
Public Health Dentistry and approved professional training program in the
Dental Hygiene
field of general dentistry, pediatric dentistry,
public health dentistry, or dental hygiene for
dental students, dental hygiene students,
dental hygienists, or other approved primary
care dental trainees.
Post-doctoral Training in
The program supports grants to plan, develop, $9.3
million
General, Pediatric and
and operate, or participate in approved
Public Health Dentistry
professional training programs in the field of
general, pediatric, and public health dentistry
as well as financial support for dental
residents, practicing dentists, or other
approved primary care dental trainees.
HRSA Grants
Program
Description
Faculty Development in Grant program supports initiatives focused
General, Pediatric, and on the development of existing or future
Public Health Dentistry dental faculty members, including training,
and Dental Hygiene
educational activities, and learning systems.
Dental Faculty Loan
Repayment
Grant program supports full-time faculty
members and aids in the retention and
recruitment of faculty.
Grant
Totals
$4.5
million
$1.1
million
HRSA Grants
Program
State Oral Health
Workforce Program
Description
Program directly supports states' efforts to
improve oral health access through various
workforce programs. Activities through this grant
program include: loan forgiveness and
repayment, recruitment and retention efforts,
grants and low-or no-interest loans,
establishment or expansion of dental residency
programs, expansion of oral health services in
shortage areas, placement and support of dental
trainees, continuing education, teledentistry,
community-based prevention, promotion of oral
health professions among youth, faculty
recruitment programs, and developing or
augmenting a state's dental director office.
Grant
Totals
$2.2
million
HRSA Grants
Program
Description
Geriatric Training for
Program provides financial assistance for
Physicians, Dentists, and geriatric training projects to train
Behavioral and Mental
physicians, dentists, and behavioral and
Health Professionals
mental health professionals who plan to
Program
teach geriatric medicine, geriatric dentistry,
or geriatric behavioral and mental health.
Teaching Health Center Program supports the increased number of
Graduate Medical
primary care residents and dentists trained
Education Program
in community-based ambulatory patient
care settings.
The Children's Hospitals Program provides funding to freestanding
Graduate Medical
children's hospitals to support training of
Education Payment
pediatric and other medical and dental
Program
residents in graduate medical education
programs.
Grant
Totals
$8
million
$230
million
$8.4
million
HRSA Grants
Program
Scholarships for
Disadvantaged
Students
Health Professions
Student Loan
Loans for
Disadvantaged
Students
Grant
Totals
$44
million
Description
Program promotes diversity among health
professions students and practitioners by
providing scholarships to full-time, financially
needy students from disadvantaged backgrounds
enrolled in health professions programs, including
oral health programs.
Program supports participating institutions that
Varies
provide long-term, low-interest loans to full-time
students with financial need to pursue a degree in
a medical discipline, including dentistry.
Program supports participating institutions that
provide long-term, low-interest loans to full-time
students from disadvantaged backgrounds with
financial need to pursue a degree in a medical
discipline, including dentistry.
Varies
HRSA Grants
Program
Description
National Health Service Program seeks dentists and dental hygienists to
Corps Loan Repayment provide culturally competent, interdisciplinary
Program
primary health care services to underserved
populations located in selected Health
Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs).
Grant
Totals
$169
million
National Health Service Program provides scholarships to students who are
$42
enrolled, or accepted for enrollment, in an accredited million
Corps Scholarship
health care professions academic program pursuing
Program
careers in primary care, including dentistry.
To learn more about grants, loans, and scholarships available through HRSA please visit
http://www.hrsa.gov/index.html and click on “grants” or “loans and scholarships” or contact
HRSA, Bureau of Health Professions, Division of Student Loans and Scholarships, Campus
Based Branch at (301) 443-4776.