{"id":11578,"date":"2026-04-21T21:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T21:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/?p=11578"},"modified":"2026-04-21T21:36:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T21:36:36","slug":"uw-oral-health-training-center-aims-to-boost-dental-care-access-in-rural-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/2026\/04\/21\/uw-oral-health-training-center-aims-to-boost-dental-care-access-in-rural-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"UW Oral Health Training Center aims to boost dental care access in rural communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11580\" src=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/kqh-oral-health-300x154.png\" alt=\"UW School of Dentistry's new Oral Health Training Center in Spokane\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/kqh-oral-health-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/kqh-oral-health-1024x524.png 1024w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/kqh-oral-health-768x393.png 768w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/kqh-oral-health-1536x786.png 1536w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/kqh-oral-health.png 1950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>NonStop Local&#8217;s Heidi Meili reports on the University of Washington School of Dentistry&#8217;s new Oral Health Training Center in Spokane, which aims to expand dental care in rural communities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khq.com\/news\/uw-oral-health-training-center-aims-to-boost-dental-care-access-in-rural-communities\/video_4b65adf4-b0d2-5385-b4b0-3b248adad2d3.html?mkt_tok=MTMxLUFRTy0yMjUAAAGhTuQXaWm_a5jWB4-yrvRMau9BZvv_oNG1LKvbHV9I5y0MmChIhzMz3GNHiT1WBOR6I7wo5gjm1_ZQgLDcCukkr27Gp13PpG4MjsrIqOrFPUUpadsh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View the full video story here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wohw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11581,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578\/revisions\/11581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}