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Manchester staff flag dental, hearing and vision access gaps; health services for people experiencing homelessness to continue under new provider arrangement
Summary
Public health staff described limited dental, hearing and vision access across age groups, outlined existing safety-net services (including a dental van and mobile street-medicine van) and said primary clinics serving people experiencing homelessness will transition administratively as hospital ownership changes.
Genna Thomas and other health department staff reported on barriers to dental, hearing and vision care, and on the department’s primary-care access points for people experiencing homelessness.
Thomas said the department operates a dental van and provides free dental treatment for about 600 children per year through the van and volunteer dentists. She described the van and mobile efforts as a safety net rather than a longitudinal dental home: "By no means is that a dental home; that's a Band Aid," Thomas said.…
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