Ohio dental centre gets $140k grant
An Ohio dental centre has been awarded $140,000’s worth of funding so it can help underprivileged local people.
The Summa Center for Dental Health treats uninsured and Medicaid patients in an income assessed sliding-scale and trains dental school graduates.
Over the last year the centre has received a number of grants to ensure that it can carry on with all its good work and expand its services.
It received $65,000 from Ohio Department of Health, $25,000 from Akron Community Foundation, $20,000 worth of dental supplies from Coltene/Whaladent, $28,000 from Akron Dental Society who agreed to match donations of its members up to $50,000 and $2,000 from Lloyd L. & Louise K Smith Foundation.
Dr Marvin Cohen, Summa’s dental residency director, said that 40% of the patients that it serves are uninsured and that 52% have Medicaid cover.
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