April 2008 - COHI Update: CT MOM a Success. Click here for COHI Updates.
April 2008 - COHI Alert: Bridgeport School Hygiene Program in Danger. Click here for the latest COHI Updates & Alerts.
March 2008 - COHI Updates: "Come and E.A.T." Dr. Mark wins award and more. Click here for the latest COHI Update
February 2008 - Champions of Oral Health: Click here COHI Annual Meeting Awards
January 2008 - HUSKY Changes Slow & more: Click here for the latest COHI Update
October 2007 - SCHIP Veto, Support COHI in your employee giving campaign, and more: Click here for the latest COHI Updates
October 2007 - Alert: Save SCHIP (HUSKY B): Click here.
October 2007 - Updates: Children's Oral Health on WNPR's 'Where We Live' and State Halts HUSKY Fee Reduction.
August 2007 - New England Rural Oral Health Conference Set: Second annual event set for 9/18/07. Click here for more info.
May 2007 - New Haven Register Editorial - joins the Day, NY Times & Hartford Courant. Recent print & Radio ads: Go to COHI Updates Archieve.
April 2007 - Recent COHI Alerts and Updates: Go to the
COHI Alerts Archieve or the
March 2007 - Updated "Fair Deal" Fact Sheet: Just the facts on why HUSKY Dental Rates MUST be increased. Click Here.
March 2007 - Tools and Information on Raising HUSKY Dental Reimbursement Rates: Click here for documents on the 2007 Legislative Session.
COHI Welcomes New Executive Director! Get the details here!
December 2005: COHI welcomes our newest Board member, Adele Gordon, Founder and Executive Director of the Dental Center of Stamford. More details to follow!
December 2005: Social and economic inequities threaten the oral and general health of millions of people in the United States on a daily basis. Click here to learn more at "Site Map: Topics: Social Justice"
November
2005: Read why the current health care system is bad for business
in the Hartford Advocate, here.
November 2005: FLASH:
Check out the the first public draft of the state
oral health plan here. All feedback welcome.
October
2005: COHI
Charts the State's Oral Health Crisis. Click
here to see charts.
October
2005: R&B
Star Records Song Exclusively for Oral Health Awareness Program
To Benefit Children in Need
. Get the details
here!
September
2005: COHI
on Katrina and Connecticut's
own Rainy Days. Read
more here!
September
2005: Dental
Health Getting Worse for Some, Report Says. Read
about it in the New York Times.
September 2005: CDC releases national oral health report. "While the findings are encouraging, the report clearly tells us that more effort is needed to improve the oral health of low-income Americans." Read the report & press release here!
August 2005: Our troubled oral health care system highlighted in the New Yorker.
August
2005: Oral
Health and Universal Health in CT.
August 2005: COHI
President responds to Senator Rockefeller on Medicaid.
July
2005: Click
Here for COHI's End of Legislative Session Report.
July
2005: Work
for the State to Promote Oral Health: Read
the job description here.
June
2005: Read
about the added cost of care for the uninsured in Connecticut here.
June 2005: Get
a summary of how "other" (non-oral
health) CT health care bills fared in 2005 here.
June
2005: Success
at the Connecticut Health Foundation (CHF)-funded Southeastern Connecticut
Oral Health Collaborative! Download the
slideshow here.
June
2005: COHI
calls on the Governor to fund Medicaid. Get
details here.
May
2005: COHI
Board member supports school nutrition bill in the Courant. Read her
letter here.
May 2005: New Poll Shows CT residents seriously worried about state's health care system, especially cost and access. Get the details here.
May 2005: Dr. Henry Rosenberg to the Editor: Fairer Rate is a Good Start. Click here to read more!
May
2005: Hartford
Courant endorses oral health fairness.
May
2005: COHI calls for oral
health care reform in the New Haven Register. Click here for more
information!
May
2005: "Most
countries are proud to have a healthcare system. It's an organized
way of helping the sick and infirm, a mark of genuine civilization.
Not so here, alas, where the health system is rapidly becoming
a health hazard." Click
here to read more!
April 2005: Children's preventive dental services proven cost effective.
April 2005: Update on the Connecticut dental lawsuit.
April 2005: One Mother's Story.
April 2005: Learn about the oral health crisis in Windham County.
March
9th: Dentists
seeking higher Medicaid reimbursement rate to serve the poor.
March 2005: Courant
Focuses on Oral Health
March 2005: COHI supports raising Medicaid dental reimbursement rates.
February
2005: COHI
ACTION ALERT! Get the details NOW.
February
2005: COHI
testifies in support of oral health care for underserved adults.
January
2005: DSS
announced on January 21st, 2005 that the dental carve-out has been
CANCELED. Check back
for details.
January
2005: State Panel Makes
Oral Health Recommendations to Legislature
ALERT: DSS has delayed the dental carve-out until at least April 1st. Your
voices made a difference! COHI will keep you posted.
December 2004
COHI President
on "Spending
That Saves Money" in the Hartford Courant. Read the letter here.
"A
new study by COHI confirms the state's unmet oral health care needs." Read
the report here.
November
2004
COHI joins coalition supporting adequate funding of the SAGA program and real
access to health care for our poorest residents. Read
our letter here.
"Four years after the state is sued for not providing dental care for children on Medicaid, little has changed." Click here to read more about it in the Hartford Advocate.