The program identifies Medicaid patients 60 and older who need full or partial dentures, bills the state plan for covered procedures, and draws upon a Delta Dental Community Care Foundation grant for the balance.
Community Impact
When Communities Lead, Change Follows: UMB’s EMBRACE Partners with Residents to Break Old Cycles
EMBRACE operates across four interconnected areas — programming, academics/scholarship, research/evaluation, and collective impact.
CEC Turns 10: A Celebration of Community
UMB celebrates a decade of connection, collaboration, and community in West Baltimore.
Community Impact Archives
Ready and Waiting: UMB’s New Community Engagement Center Is Complete
The historic building at 16 S. Poppleton St. is seven times larger than the original center.
Cultivating the Future of Health Care: How PALLA Is Transforming the Physician Assistant Landscape
The Physician Assistant Leadership and Learning Academy is building a statewide infrastructure to help ensure a strong pipeline of providers for Maryland’s health care system and beyond.
A Force for Jobs: CEC’s Initiatives Help Residents Build Skills and Find Work at UMB and UMMC
In addition to Workforce Wednesdays, the Community Engagement Center has teamed with nonprofit Humanim for its administrative assistants training.
YouthWorks Works: Program Put Young City Student on Career Path to UMB’s Web Development Team
UMB's departments and offices can offer these types of opportunities to the young people of Baltimore through the summer program.
One-on-One Outreach: UMB Schools Combat COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Misinformation in the Community
UMB continues efforts to increase vaccination rates in most vulnerable and underserved communities.
Shore Access: School of Medicine Launches Rural Scholars Program to Place Medical Students on the Eastern Shore
Students will have didactic and mentoring sessions in Baltimore followed by research and clinical experiences on the Eastern Shore.
Growth Spurt: B’more for Healthy Babies, Partners Broaden Reach to Family Health
The School of Social Work’s arm of the citywide initiative has grown to support the well-being of the men who help raise children.
Global Connections: School of Nursing Takes on Health Care Disparities with Global Learning for Health Equity Network
The network, housed at UMB, is built on the belief that interventions designed to eliminate health inequities in other countries may also work in U.S. communities.
Meet UMB’s Public Servant of the Year
Shantay McKinily has transformed the Positive Schools Center from a startup program into a nationally recognized educational innovation center.
Turning a Page: UMB’s Academy of Lifelong Learning Tutors Children in Reading
ALL found that the majority of students who participated in the fall made significant progress in their literacy skills during the program.
Branching Out: UMSON Students Offer Health Services to Community at Pratt Library
The program helps to fill gaps in community health care made more evident during the pandemic and provides a hands-on clinical experience for nursing students.
Getting to Know Nadine Finigan-Carr
The executive director of the Center for Violence Prevention has focused her research on the social factors that lead communities into risky behaviors that lead to chronic disease, injury, and violence.
Clinic Steps Up for Immigrants
To understand the work of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, listen to the tale of J.R., whose name has been changed to protect his privacy.
Body of Expertise: Graduate School Alumna Fahren Nipple Brings Experience from Office of Chief Medical Examiner to UMB Students
The autopsy assistant also is the assistant program director for the Master of Science in Forensic Medicine.
Connecting Neighbors to Jobs
After an eight-hour shift, Ayisha Harris has a half-hour to get to her second full-time job as a housekeeper in the Bressler Research Building at UMB.
Laying a Foundation: Inscribed, Donated Bricks Pave Walkway of New Community Engagement Center
Over 270 donors sponsored more than 560 bricks and pavers for Welcome Way.
Health Village: UM Faculty Physicians to Offer Services in Mondawmin
It is part of a larger effort to work in partnership with the West Baltimore community to develop and implement health care delivery based on neighborhood needs and improve patient access to health care.
“Art Brings All of Us Together”
UMB’s first piece of public art stands proudly at the corner of Baltimore and Pine streets, a 30-foot-tall kinetic sculpture by artist Eric Peltzer.
Meet UMB’s Public Servant of the Year
Joshua M. Abzug, MD, founded Camp Open Arms for children with limb differences
Doors Open: Community Engagement Center Welcomes Neighbors with Grand Opening
The new CEC is the cornerstone of UMB's Community Campus.
Powerful Collaboration: UMSSW Leads Evaluation of Partnership to Empower Black and Latinx Women
Project will fund several opportunities for employed, asset-limited Black and Latinx women in Baltimore.
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