“Just for Grins”: The CVHN Mobile Dental Clinic

In August 2008, CVHN launched its first mobile dental clinic program, Just for Grins.  During the 2008-2009 school year, the program provided preventive dental care and education to over 800 local school-aged (K-3) children on the free-lunch and reduced-lunch programs. Dental decay is the single most common chronic childhood disease.  Every week, CVHN receives calls to help children with severe dental problems.  Children as young as 5 need root canals and multiple teeth extracted.  Left untreated, dental decay has short and long-term negative effects, including poor overall health.  Untreated decay is linked to diseases such as diabetes, heart and lung disease and strokes.  Sadly, dental decay is almost entirely preventable.  This school year, Just for Grins provided the dental treatment and education needed to transition kids from costly and painful emergency dental care to cost-effective preventive care, allowing these children to remain healthy and to be productive students. See more about this program »

Healthcare Referral Form & Process

School teachers identify children in need of medical attention and send them to the school nurse.  The school nurse has a parent or guardian fill out the simple CVHN referral form and faxes it to CVHN.  The CVHN Client Care Coordinator matches the child with the appropriate healthcare provider and schedules an appointment.  The child is picked up by a volunteer at the school if the parent is unable to transport the child to the doctor’s office.  Follow-up care is scheduled by the CVHN Client Care Coordinator.

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UNARx Prescription Card

This FREE DRUG CARD program is sponsored by Children’s Volunteer Health Network, Inc. to help all Americans cut their prescription drug costs.  Simply download your FREE Prescription Drug Card and receive savings of up to 75% at more than 50,000 national and regional pharmacies.  Participating pharmacies include the following: Walgreens, Rite Aid, CVS, Eckerd Drugs, Publix, Winn Dixie, Sweetbay Pharmacies and K-Mart, as well as thousands of independent pharmacies.

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