The Lincoln Dental Hygiene Component has been selected as the recipient of the 2011 Colgate Community Outreach Award for LDHA volunteer activities at the dental clinic with the People’s City Mission. Cynthia Carlson will receive this award on behalf of the LDHA component at the 2011 CLL at the 88th ADHA Annual Session during Saturday’s Plenary Session in Nashville Tenn. This award includes a check in the amount of $2000 payable to LDHA. Way to go LDHA volunteers!!

2011 Sunstar Butler Award of Distinction Will be presented to Cynthia Carlson of Lincoln, Nebraska

Cynthia Carlson been selected as one of the national award winners for the Sunstar Butler Award of Distinction! She will be enjoying a fabulous time as a special guest at the RDH Under One Roof Conference in Chicago this summer!

http://www.dentistryiq.com/index/display/article-display/6988354304/articles/dentisryiq/hygiene-department/2011/05/Sunstar_and_RDH_announce_2011_recipients.html

Volunteers are needed for the CHIP events

For more information Please contact:

Roxanne Mickey rdh4allsmiles@yahoo.com
or
Michelle Fulmer Michelle@glne.org

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Click here to review a letter regarding the Nebraska Board of Dentistry – Dental Assistant “Opinion”

LB 330

LB 330, the bill to facilitate licensed dental hygienists’ ability to provide dental hygiene services to under-served Nebraskans, remains under consideration by the Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee.

Please contact your representative in the Legislature to express your personal interest and support for this important legislation. If you have already been in contact with your senator, remind them of your earlier expression of interest. Ask your senator to visit with members of the Health and Human Services Committee about LB 330 and the health care benefits and services it can bring to presently under-served Nebraskans.

Thank you for your active participation in moving your profession forward.

If you have any questions please contact Deb Schardt, NDHA Legislative Chair at 402-310-4428 or email at mikedebschardt@diodecom.net

You can read and track the bill here
http://nebraskalegislature.gov/bills/view_bill.php?DocumentID=12432

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