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Valley Health of Huntington has received a $600,000 grant from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation to improve dental health in West Virginia.
It was one of five grants in the state totaling $1 million. Smaller grants were awarded to the West Virginia Head Start Association in Wheeling, New River Health Association in Fayette County, Healthy Kids and Families Coalition in Charleston and Shenandoah Valley Medical System in Martinsburg.
The grants will be used for education and training programs and other dental health initiatives.
“For too long, we have neglected informing West Virginians of the impact of dental disease and how it relates to malnutrition as well as a number of other conditions, such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes, low birth-weight babies and hypertension,” said Dan Brody, a dentist who will lead an education campaign planned by Valley Health.
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