AADOM Featured Company Interview – Dental Lifeline Network

AADOM Featured Company is a 30-minute live, interview-style presentation sharing the company’s mission, product/service, and best practices for office managers.

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Dental Lifeline Network has been changing lives for over 50 years through a network of volunteer dentists and labs that provide comprehensive dental care for adults with disabilities, veterans, and individuals who can’t afford dental care throughout the U.S.

Many adults cannot afford dental care, especially our community’s most vulnerable residents. From clearing up painful dental infections and being able to eat again to rejoining the workforce, Dental Lifeline Network helps those desperately in need of dental care become pain-free and smile confidently again.

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Transform Your Practice and Your Team Through Volunteering

Dental Lifeline Network’s Donated Dental Services (DDS) program is a national system of care that transforms the lives of America’s most vulnerable adults. These are individuals living with disabilities, who are elderly, or who are medically fragile, and who cannot afford comprehensive dental treatment.

By volunteering with DLN, your office can provide the life-changing, comprehensive dental care they desperately need, restoring not just their oral health but their dignity and overall quality of life.

Volunteering Made Easy

At DLN, we understand that your office already manages a full, complex schedule, which is why when you volunteer with us, we handle the details, and your office provides the care.

When your office joins the DDS program, DLN does the work of patient screening, case management, and coordination of specialty services and labs. This makes volunteering with DLN easy for all members of your office staff.

Your talented team can focus on what they do best – delivering high-quality, professional dental care right from your own office – while DLN manages the logistics.

Strategic Benefits of Giving Back

While the driving motivation for giving back is service to your community, the act of giving back also provides numerous benefits that directly help your dental practice.

Improves Team Morale and Team Building

Volunteering for a shared, deeply impactful mission gives a unifying sense of purpose to the daily professional routine. Working together to complete a volunteer case fosters genuine team building that standard workplace activities cannot replicate.

Staff members feel more connected to their colleagues and to a greater cause, which significantly improves team morale and promotes a positive work environment.

Increases Employee Retention and Develops Employee Talents

Potential employees, particularly within the healthcare sector, actively seek employment with organizations that demonstrate a deep commitment to social responsibility. Participating in DLN’s DDS program shows that your practice is committed to community service as a core value. This sense of shared purpose is a powerful factor in increasing employee retention, making your practice a far more desirable place to work.

Complex cases referred through DLN can provide clinical opportunities for your staff to apply, expand, and hone advanced skills, developing employee talents through real-world, high-impact clinical experience.

Builds Patient Loyalty and Enhances Practice Reputation

Today’s patients appreciate and actively seek out businesses that are visible, caring, and active members of their community. When current patients see that their dental provider is involved in such a meaningful and impactful program as DLN’s DDS program, it reinforces their trust and builds patient loyalty

No Out-of-Pocket Expenses

DLN has established an expansive network of generous partners that ensure dental practices participating in DDS incur no out-of-pocket expenses for essential laboratory fees. DLN coordinates with a national network of dental labs and specialists who generously donate their services and materials. This commitment ensures that your practice is focused entirely on the donation of time and professional skill right from your office.

Become a Champion for DLN in Your Office

As an office manager, your expertise is crucial in mobilizing your practice’s volunteer efforts. Your leadership can make the commitment to DLN a smooth, immensely rewarding, and consistent part of your practice’s ongoing operation.

We invite you and your office to volunteer with Dental Lifeline Network and join us in our mission to transform the lives of America’s most vulnerable adults through donated dental care. You will make a difference that extends far beyond your practice walls and reinforces your practice’s success.

Visit dentallifeline.org/volunteer/om/ to sign up and learn more.

 

 

Speaker: Lynda Ricketson, CEO of Dental Lifeline Network

Lynda is responsible for the oversight of financial management, development, marketing, programs, volunteer recruitment, and day-to-day operations. She has spent the entirety of her thirty-year career in the nonprofit sector, including serving as a program officer for Rose Community Foundation (RCF), specializing in mental and dental health.

Educating the public about the importance of oral health care became a passion, and she was among the group of funders and public health dentists that created Cavity Free at Three, a program designed to prevent oral disease in young children and pregnant women.

Ricketson earned her undergraduate degree from Metropolitan State University and a Master’s in Liberal Studies from the University of Denver. She also maintains the Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) accreditation.