Mobile tooth care coming to needy in Modesto (CA)

[Kadie]

Monday, Nov. 29, 2010
Mobile tooth care coming to needy in Modesto
Clinic will travel weekly among 4 parks in spring
(to treat the homeless, working poor, the unemployed and others)


A church ministry that feeds and clothes the poor and cares for them when they are sick wants to give them basic dental care.

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The need for free basic dental care is great, especially since the state eliminated most dental services more than a year ago for adults on Medi-Cal, the state-federal insurance program for the poor. More than 65,000 Stanislaus County adults were eligible for the benefit when it was cut.

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Dentists Andrew Fletcher and Corey Acree are working with Nineveh Outreach pastor Chuck Cutsinger and Hope Medivan administrator Doug Buchanan on the clinic. The two dentists have years of experience helping others.

Acree and members of his dental staff travel to Mexico each year for a week to work with orphans. Fletcher's volunteer work included a stint at the county's now-defunct dental clinic. Both said the mobile clinic is a way to live their faith.

"No. 1, because I'm a Christian, I need to live a life of service," Fletcher said. "Secondly, we are businessmen in this community. Though he and I are passionate about doing dentistry south of the border and elsewhere in the world, there are needs … right outside our doors."


Read more: http://www.modbee.com/2010/11/28/1448992/mobile-tooth-care-coming-to-needy.html#ixzz16gyhZjab

[jwirr]

1. I don't know if the University of Iowa still does this but when my

daughter needed health care they held clinics in area towns. It did not cost anything because it is a teaching hospital and these were part of the study. This of course was just the preliminary checkup and if further care was needed they referred you to the UI. In my opinion it worked very well. Started with taking ones history, seeing a doctor and ended with a social worker helping you set up the appointments and financial aid if you needed it. Hopefully these are the kinds of clinics that the new HCR bill is going to set up.