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The School of Dental Medicine was established at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington during the 1960s. The school's John Dempsey Hospital was opened in Farmington in 1975. [3] The School of Dental Medicine has seven speciality programs.
Watertown is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The town is part of the Naugatuck Valley Planning Region. The population was 22,105 at the 2020 census. [1] The ZIP Codes for Watertown are 06795 (for most of the town) and 06779 (for the Oakville section). It is a suburb of Waterbury.
The area that is now Watertown was settled in the early 18th century, but was not incorporated as a separate town until 1780. Its town green, extending north–south between United States Route 6 and Woodbury Road, was laid out in 1772, and a colonial meetinghouse built at its edge (where the present town hall now stands), the area began to take shape as a village center.
The Department's roots are in the "Office of Mental Retardation," established in 1959 as part of the Department of Health. [5] In 1975, it was established as the "Department of Mental Retardation" (DMR) in order to "administer the Training Schools, all other regional centers, and state operated community and residential facilities for the diagnosis, care and training of mentally challenged ...
The foundation received $41 million to carry out the conditions of the settlement. It was charged with working toward system-wide health care reform. [5] The foundation was incorporated in 2000. It opened its first offices in New Haven, Connecticut. In January 2003, Juan Figueroa, a former Connecticut legislator, [6] became foundation president ...
Oakville is a census-designated place (CDP) and neighborhood section of Watertown, in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 9,047 as of the 2010 census. [1] It is the most populous community in Watertown, with more than twice as many people as the center village of Watertown. [2] The ZIP code for Oakville is 06779.
Global Dental Relief (GDR) was founded in 2001 as the Himalayan Dental Relief Project by former Director of Colorado State Parks, Laurie Mathews and Andrew Holecek, DDS. [5] While on sabbatical in Nepal, they recognized the desperate need for dental care in a country which, at the time, had 120 dentists for a population approaching 24 million ...
By 2010, assisted by funding received through the ARRA, health centers had expanded to serve more than 18 million people. The health center program's annual federal funding grew from $1.16 billion in the 2001 fiscal year to $2.6 billion in the 2011 fiscal year. [60] Health centers served 24,295,946 patients in 2015. [61]