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Quality of Care Woes Persist in California

Despite a heightened focus on patient safety in recent years, a new CHCF Almanac report finds that although incremental gains have been made, California is still grappling with quality improvement.

HIT Adoption Among California Dentists

What's the level of interest among California dentists in adopting health information technology, such as electronic dental health records, and how many are already making use of such systems? This snapshot of survey data provides some answers.

Health Care Reform's Formidable Challenge

A new Health Affairs analysis and commentary finds that while federal health care reform promises to overhaul the U.S. health care system, it does not adequately address growing Medicare spending.

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Doctors and Nurses

Thursday, June 04, 2009

Report Shows Dentist Shortage in San Joaquin County

A report from UCLA finds that certain areas in San Joaquin County have a shortage of dental health professionals. The study identified southeast Stockton and downtown Stockton as two of the state's 233 dental health professional shortage areas, meaning the areas have a dentist-to-population ratio of 1-to-5,000 or less, or have a population with unusually high needs or insufficient capacity for care among the existing dentists.



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