September 29, 2006
ADA: New: Disaster Planning and More
The American Dental Association has released a new guide on Disaster Planning for your practice, with great assistance from the Florida Dental Association.
ADA: Disaster Planning and Recovery: http://www.ada.org/prof/prac/disaster/index.asp
The message to remember is this: "Proactive planning can mitigate loss, save lives and assure your practice continues to function when it may be needed most. The time to plan for a crisis is now."
Topics covered in the guide include:
Evaluate: Current
Plan: Create
Prepare: Before
Respond: During
Recover: After
Guides & Resources
Worksheets & Applications
Hurricane Relief: Katrina
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February 25, 2006
Impact of Katrina on African-American Dentists
The following news article describes the impact, plans, and conditions of life for several of the New Orleans dentists who were leaders in the local African American community.
Cass, Julia. Notable Mardi Gras Abscences Reflect Loss of Black Middle Class (Saturday, 25 February 2006): http://www.amhersttimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=841&Itemid=27
EXCERPT:
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"The impression is that just poor people were displaced, but Katrina has had a devastating effect on the black middle class, too," said Willard Dumas, a dentist who serves as the Bunch Club's recording secretary and now lives in Baton Rouge. "You spend 45 years building a life and then it's gone. Your home was flooded; your business was flooded. And this happened not only to you but to practically everyone you know, so your patients or clients are gone, your friends are scattered, and your relatives are somewhere else." ... Those black professionals are scattered across the South, finding new jobs, establishing new medical and legal practices and businesses. The longer they are gone, the greater the worry that they will not come back -- leaving New Orleans, a majority-black city before Katrina, without a core of African American leadership.
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For more information on this topic, please see:
National Dental Association (NDA): Katrina State of Emergency : NDA Disaster Relief Efforts: http://www.ndaonline.org/katrinainfo.asp
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February 23, 2006
National Practitioner Data Bank
The National Practitioner Data Bank is a resource perhaps best known for its provision of aggregate data on trends in malpractice suits by state and profession. Another common use of the database is to ask for copies of reports on yourself (for practitioners), rather like asking for a copy of your credit report.
This resource is about to change location. It is currently available at:
National Practitioner Data Bank: http://www.npdb-hipdb.com/
"Beginning on May 8, 2006, the Data Bank Web site will be located at www.npdb-hipdb.hrsa.gov. The Data Banks are moving to a .gov domain name to help prevent fraud by showing Data Bank users that the NPDB-HIPDB Web site is under the Government-run domain."
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