(215 ILCS 170/54)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on October 1, 2024)

Sec. 54. Dental home initiative. The Department, in cooperation with the dental community and other affected organizations such as Head Start, shall work to develop and promote the concept of a dental home for children covered under this Act. Included in this dental home outreach should be an effort to ensure an ongoing relationship between the patient and the dentist with an effort to provide comprehensive, coordinated, oral health care so that all children covered under this Act have access to preventative and restorative oral health care.

(Source: P.A. 97-283, eff. 8-9-11.)