title: Issues faced by community health centers.
abstract: Federally qualified health centers face numerous issues with regard to marketplace competition, staffing, and reimbursement streams that assure financial viability. Positioning the dental department of a health center to a high community profile strengthens the health center in professional educational development leading to a pipeline of workforce members, effective dental directors, and innovative fund-raising. A new dental team member developed by the American Dental Association can be utilized in health centers to make all traditional auxiliaries more productive.
authors.affiliation: Center for Family Health, Jackson, MI, USA.
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Grover
mesh_terms: D057171:American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; D002140:California; D003153:Community Health Services; D003727:Dental Auxiliaries / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003740:Dental Clinics / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005653:Fund Raising; D006270:Health Facility Administrators / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D012934:Social Isolation; D012953:Societies, Dental; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce