The Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation and The Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation are donating $1.1 million to12 health clinics throughout the state to integrate medical and dental care, according to a Nov. 20 news release.
The funding aims to improve patients’ access to integrated health services.
"Through our programs and grant funding opportunities, we aim to increase access to quality healthcare and reduce dental disease," Lora Vitek, executive director of the Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation, said in the news release. "Integrating dental care into a child's primary care at an early age can help establish the foundation for a lifetime of good oral and overall health."
Here is a list of the practices receiving grants:
- Advocate Charitable Foundation (Downers Grove, Ill.)
- Aunt Martha's Youth Service Center (Midlothian, Ill.)
- Community Health Improvement Center (Decatur, Ill.)
- Pillars Community Health (La Grange, Ill.)
- Erie Family Health Foundation (Chicago)
- Heartland International Health Center (Chicago)
- Howard Brown Health Center (Chicago)
- Lawndale Christian Health Center (Chicago)
- Macoupin County Public Health Department (Gillespie, Ill.)
- Promise Healthcare (Champaign, Ill.)
- Shawnee Health Service and Development Corporation (Carbondale, Ill.)
- SIHF Healthcare (Sauget, Ill.)
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