Dental Hygiene Noel Kelsch RDHAP, MS Daniel Donoghue Student Sierra Partridge • Health care professionals who focus on preventing and treating oral diseases to protect teeth, gums and patient’s overall health. • Can work in a variety of settings from public health settings to hospitals. • Must graduate from accredited college & university with dental hygiene education programs. • Licensed oral health professionals – R.D.H. • Cabrillo College Dental Hygiene has been educating dental Hygienists for 50 years!
Systemic Health All places, All people
Cabrillo College Dental Hygiene Dan’s Story • Two year program: includes courses in Clinical Assessment, Tooth Morphology, Oral Health Education, Dental Materials, Oral Pathology, Dental Radiology, Local Anesthesia, Dental Radiographic Interpretation, Law & Ethics, Periodontics, and Community Oral Health. • The Dental Hygiene Clinic: o State of the art facility opened in Summer 2010. o 18 chair computer equipped main clinic. o 6 chair digitally equipped radiology clinic and panoramic unit. o Computerized patient appointment scheduling. o Dental software instruction and use.
Success in Learning: Sierra’s Story • Developed Inter-Dispensary Program with Nursing, Radiology Stroke and Disabilities Center • Reached out to 18 underserved communities • 42 students participated in conducting a research project for the National Institute of Health • 3 successful research projects completed and accepted for publication
Success in Learning: Sierra • 100% passage rate on Clinical and National Boards • Graduating 20-22 patients a year • 100% employed making an average of $97,430 a year • Meet the oral care needs of 3,000 people in our community Pathways Non Credit courses for Dental Office: 15 Certificates issued to date for Dental Technology • Building a resume
Pathways program: a way of achieving a specified result; a course of action. • Dental Terminology • Dental Law and Ethics • Dental Insurance • Dental Technology 1 and 2
Success in Progression of the Program Noel Kelsch: My Story • Raised the necessary funding to keep the program open • Added on additional full time temporary position starting September 2018 • Reached out to area Federally Qualified Health Centers developed a cooperative. They pay for faculty. We supply 2 nd year students. Freeing up TUs • Approved as Remediation School for all Schools in California • Approved to do outside rotations
Success in Progression of the Program • Raised fees to match a percentage of the industry (Average 20%) • Developed Inter-Dispensary Program with Medical Assisting, Nursing, Radiology Stroke and Disabilities Center, Physical Education • Developed a state of the art hands on Continuing Education program utilizing campus resources including support from Marketing, Extension, Facilities, IT • Marketing to all 50 States! Earning an average of $40,000 a course for Expanded duties course • Support: CTE and Workforce Development, Grant Department, Foundation Marketing
Plans for the future • Self Sustaining • Increase number of FT faculty • Increase number of chairs by 3 so that we can increase FTEs • Add Chair and portable X-Ray Unit to the Stroke and Disabilities Center to meet the needs of the community and increase the venues in students education • Guided Pathways: Infection Control Coordinator Course • Dentist from UOP supplying dental care • Expanding Hands On Course to Weekend Retreat
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