ADA expands CDHC program as online course available directly to hygienists, assistants
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Summary & scoring by The Bell Brief (Dr. Jennifer Bell) using the Drill-Down Protocol (Drill-Down Score) — not the original publisher.
Why it matters for dental
Practice owners and DSOs gain an asynchronous ADA pathway to train existing hygienists and assistants as Community Dental Health Coordinators, adding a revenue-support role that links underserved patients to the practice while expanding Medicaid and payer-network reach.
Key points
- ADA now offers the fully online, asynchronous Community Dental Health Coordinator course directly to practicing hygienists and assistants.
- Course content updates align training with community health worker competencies.
- Zufall Health, a New Jersey federally qualified health center, trained 32 CDHCs who each served hundreds of patients annually.
- CDHCs at Zufall Health helped raise HPV vaccination rates among patients aged 9–18 from roughly 12% in October 2019 to slightly more than 40% in July 2020.
Who should care
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