To help meet the dental health needs of children and adults, Delta Dental of Missouri — the state’s leading dental benefits provider and a non-profit organization — recently awarded Kansas City University (KCU) a $50,000 grant to support its Oral Health Assistance Fund to help provide free care to underserved patients without dental insurance in southwest Missouri.
The funding is part of Delta Dental of Missouri’s 2024 mission giving initiatives, which included awarding nearly $350,000 in oral health grants to eight organizations to support oral health initiatives, educational programs and charitable causes across the state.
“I am very thankful to Delta Dental of Missouri for this grant to support uncompensated care. Many of the patients receiving dental care in our Harry M. Cornell Oral Health Center have not seen a dentist in many years and lack of financial resources is the primary reason,” said Linda C. Niessen, DMD, founding dean and vice provost of oral health affairs for KCU’s College of Dental Medicine. “This grant will help these patients receive the dental care that they need.”
The company awards grants for general operations, programs, projects and capacity-building efforts promoting the oral health of individuals in Missouri. Objectives of its grant program include:
- Reducing oral disease through education, prevention and treatment
- Ensuring access to affordable, timely and high-quality dental care
- Enhancing the awareness of good oral health with a focus on children and individuals in need
- Making a measurable difference in the oral health of Missourians
- Helping to ensure that Missouri is among the states with the highest indicators of oral health.
Delta Dental of Missouri also awarded more than $132,000 in grants to three organizations in South Carolina. To learn more, click here.
About Kansas City University
Kansas City University, founded in 1916, is a fully accredited, private not-for-profit health sciences university with Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, Biosciences and a developing College of Dental Medicine. The College of Osteopathic Medicine is the eighth largest medical school in the U.S., the ninth most impactful medical school for primary care for the nation, the tenth most affordable of private medical colleges, and the leading producer of physicians for the State of Missouri. The College of Osteopathic Medicine has two sites strategically located on the University’s campuses in Kansas City and Joplin, Missouri, to address the growing needs of both urban and rural populations. The University offers multiple graduate degrees; a doctor of osteopathic medicine; a doctor of psychology in clinical psychology; a master of arts in bioethics; a master of science in the biomedical sciences; a master of business administration in partnership with Rockhurst University; a new master of public health in partnership with the University of Nebraska Medical Center; and plans to seat the first doctor of dental medicine students in 2023.
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