Talk:University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry

Closure of Advanced General Dentistry Clinic
Hello, I would like to see some edits made to this entry. I am an employee of the school and I can understand the obvious conflict of interest; however, some of the information is inaccurate and should be corrected.

The requested changes are to replace the following:

In June 2008 the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry closed its Advanced General Dentistry Clinic, effectively dropping the vast majority of its HIV+ patients. The reason, according to the school, was due to the lack of public funding. However the US Department of Health and Human Services states: “HRSA funded the University of the Pacific for un-reimbursed dental care costs incurred within July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006 period. The University dropped out of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Dental Reimbursement Program in the fall of 2007 and are therefore no longer receiving funding for these services.”

If you are HIV positive or have special needs the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry will not take you as a patient.

(Who wrote these statements? This is not true. It is true that the UOP has closed the AGD Clinic, however, as the second year of a one million dollar + federal Ryan White CARE contract the UOP was granted $500,000 in Ryan White Care money for the fiscal year July 2008 to 2009. About $100,000 of that money was earmarked to serve about 200 existing HIV patients in the AGD Clinic and the remaining $400K allocated to the rest of the HIV patients served elsewhere at he UOP. Those patients are now refused services on the basis that their care is now "too complex" to be served elsewhere at the UOP. However the UOP has a CARE Dental Clinic but has refused to use that $100K to serve the former AGD patients who are left with no care. There is significant controversy over whether it was appropriate for the City of San Francisco to allow the UOP to keep that $100,000 at the same time it dumped the care of about 200 long term AID/HIV survivors. These patients were not refused treatment because the UOP lost funding for the UOP has retained the same CARE funding it received last year. The matter is referred to by some of these former patients as Cash Not Care which is a pun on Mayor Newsom's Care not Cash Program. All this is a matter of controversy.)

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As of November 2008, the dental school operates14 clinics located in San Francisco, Union City and Stockton that offer dental services to children and adults, many of them at reduced fees. In addition to general dentistry, the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry offers orthodontics, implants, oral surgery and treatment for orofacial disorders such as TMJ. The school also treats patients with special needs such as developmental disabilities or dental fear.

It is true that the UOP has closed the AGD Clinic, however, as the second year of a one million dollar + federal Ryan White CARE contract the UOP was granted $500,000 in Ryan White Care money for the fiscal year July 2008 to 2009. About $100,000 of that money was earmarked to serve about 200 existing HIV patients in the AGD Clinic and the remaining $400K allocated to the rest of the HIV patients served elsewhere at he UOP. Those patients are now refused services on the basis that their care is now "too complex" to be served elsewhere at the UOP. However the UOP has a CARE Dental Clinic but has refused to use that $100K to serve the former AGD patients who are left with no care. There is significant controversy over whether it was appropriate for the City of San Francisco to allow the UOP to keep that $100,000 at the same time it dumped the care of about 200 long term AID/HIV survivors. These patients were not refused treatment because the UOP lost funding for the UOP has retained the same CARE funding it received last year. The matter is referred to by some of these former patients as Cash Not Care which is a pun on Mayor Newsom's Care not Cash Program. All this is a matter of controversy.)

Thank you!

Usernameangst (talk) 19:27, 19 November 2008 (UTC)


 * This appears to lack sourcing for some of the statements. I added a source for some of the statements. Please review and complete. -- User:Docu

text moved from article
According to University of the Pacific and San Francisco city officials, discussions are underway regarding University of the Pacific's contract for Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act funding; this funding is used to reimburse the school for services provided but has not increased in recent years despite increased costs of providing services. I removed the above text about "discussions are underway" from the article as it's May now and the article dates from April. -- User:Docu 16:30, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Rename
This article used to be at created two other ones at: Apparently the name of the institution is "University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry". Thus I moved the #1 to this title. The edit history of the former #2 is at University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry 2. As there is no additional info there, I didn't merge the edit histories. -- User:Docu
 * 1: Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry.
 * 2: University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry and at
 * 3: University of the Pacific School of Dentistry.


 * I actually think #1 works fine for what that's worth. This obviously isn't a high-traffic page, or at least not high-edit. I'm sure as a Wikipedia article it gets plenty of traffic. Polind (talk) 11:08, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

COI tag
I removed the tag because of the many months that had passed and the lack of any "discussion" on this talk page, but I see why it was there now that I looked at the article history. I'll happily discuss any neutrality issues since I have no connection to this school or its parent school. Polind (talk) 11:04, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

External links modified
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