News & Information
PDHA Executive Secretary Search
How exciting ~ PDHA currently has a full-time position available for application. PDHA is accepting resumes for the executive secretary position. The time frame for resume submission is short. Please forward resumes to PDHA@outlook.com by October 18, 2019
PDHA Advocacy
PDHA Lobby Day! Legislation is important. It provides a platform for the growth of our scope of practice and a means to protect our license. This is the invisible benefit of membership.
NOMINATIONS NEEDED FOR 2020 PDHA LEADERSHIP POSITIONS
Download Candidate Application and review list of terms, qualifications and some duties of the PDHA officer and positions that will be elected late summer and at this year’s Annual Session to be held November 7-11, 2019.
Erie County health department hits road for dental screenings
Five-year-old patient Alex Miller has pictures of his teeth taken by Karen Omniewski, a public health dental hygiene practitioner with the Erie County Department of Health, during a teledentistry visit in Corry last week.
Public Health for the RDH: Past, Present and Future
Karen Omniewski RDH, PHDHP, MS, a long standing member of the American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA), tells us the story of how she began her career as a clinical Dental Hygienist over forty years ago.
Tooth shaped flag pins
Our Penn Hy-PAC team has 100 ‘Tooth shape Flag’ pins available for a small donation of $10.00 each. PLEASE purchase and wear your pin ‘Hygienist Proud’. PDHA member leaders will have pins available at your component CE courses this fall and at Annual Session in Valley Forge