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Friday, November 12, 2010   

WILLIMANTIC, Conn. - The federal health reform law provides funding to increase access to care, and $5 million of that money is helping the Generations Family Health Center in Willimantic build a comprehensive new "green" facility. It will serve patients in the poorest and most medically under-served county in the state.

CEO Arvind Shaw says the money saved by the new geo-thermal heating system will enable the center to serve more people, which is good, since they expect visits to increase by more than half to $40,000 a year. He says the center will offer fully integrated care.

"We hope this is going to be a big improvement in the delivery of primary medical, dental and behavioral care. And we're gonna put all of this in one shop so it's really your one stop that you'll need to make."

The $14 million facility is scheduled to open in late summer of 2011.

Shaw says oral health must be an integrated part of overall health care, because of the role it plays in other diseases.

"There are direct connections with cardiac disease, with diabetes and with pregnancy outcomes that are directly attributable and related to the care that the mom gets with oral health."

He says the center, through its mobile dental program in Windham County called Across the Smiles, has already increased dental visits 43 percent in the past two years.

"We're in all the schools, we're in the Head Start centers, we're in some of the nursing homes, we're at the homeless shelter. We're at places where we know there's a high need."


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