The Cleveland Foundation's board of directors has approved a $200,000 grant to update and increase the functional capacity of the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine's community dental healthcare center.
Specifically, the grant will help improve the 45-year-old health center with modern technology, teaching, and clinical techniques. Improvements also will allow for greater efficiency, increasing the center's capacity to provide care.
The center is the largest oral health safety-net provider in Northeast Ohio, with 85,000 patient visits and an estimated $5.2 million in care provided in 2012.
The dental school funding was among $15.3 million in second-quarter grants the foundation pledged to local nonprofit organizations for programs in economic development, public education reform, arts and culture, public health, and other important areas.
