Free dental clinic gets $100k grant
A free dental clinic in Virginia has received more than $100,000 to help it improve the oral health of local people.
Shenandoah County Free Clinic, in Woodstook, has been given $108,750 by the Virginia Health Care Foundation (VHCF) so it can take on a full time dentist.
Part of the Shenandoah Memorial Hospital, the clinic provides dental care to children who have Medicaid and uninsured adults.
Pam Murphy, exec director at the clinic, said that the grant had helped the practice to secure the services of Dr Lucciola Lambruschini and had also pushed it a step closer to becoming self-sufficient.
In 2009 the clinic treated 900 patients in 1,930 visits and Murphy said that she expects this number to double in 2010.
She thanked the VHCF, saying the clinic could not have achieved what it had without the funding.
The clinic will soon be moving to 124 Valley Vista Drive where it has far more space to care to patients.
Murphy said that she hoped that it would be able to take on a second dentist in the near future.
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