Events

August 31, 2011

A Crowd of Nearly 200 Attend CODA Open Hearing in Nashville

In recent months, ADHA has worked to communicate to our members the steps we are taking to address issues facing the profession nationwide. One of the foremost issues that we have addressed during this time has been the proliferation of dental hygiene programs that is occurring all across the country. Last spring, ADHA asked its members to get directly involved by participating in a letter writing campaign to the Commission on Dental Accreditation or CODA, the body that accredits new education programs. As part of this campaign ADHA urged members, local chapters and state components to send CODA letters urging the Commission to include a comprehensive needs assessment as a part of its application process for all new dental hygiene education programs seeking accreditation.

The results of these efforts are still being measured, but we can share that the links to the letter templates hosted at www.adha.org were hit thousands of times during the campaign and that CODA did receive many letters as a result of the campaign. Another positive development resulting from ADHA’s efforts was that during ADHA’s recent Center for Lifelong Learning at the 88th Annual Session, nearly 200 dental hygienists crowded into a meeting room for an open CODA hearing. These meetings typically are not very well attended, but many visitors at the meeting held in June offered CODA written and verbal testimony urging the inclusion of a comprehensive needs assessment in the application process. Hygienists also shared with the Commission, accounts of ways in which the growth of new educational programs and the resulting influx of new hygienists have impacted the employment situation for dental hygienists in many areas of the country.

CODA is currently evaluating the testimony received during the June hearing, as well as tabulating the letters they received, and will be issuing a report at its January 2012 meeting. ADHA will keep you abreast of any developments and we thank all who participated in these efforts to communicate our position to the Commission.

 

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2012 CLL at the 89th Annual Session will take place in Phoenix, AZ
June 13-19, 2012 at the Phoenix Convention Center.

Registration Information:
Registration opens Mid-January 2012
Registration rates start at $199 for members
CE courses can be added to main registration for an additional $30-$100

 

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August 1 - 3, 2012
Las Vegas, NV
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