2025 ADS Annual Conference: Advancing Dental Readiness: Achieving High Reliability in the Military Health System (On Demand)
In this session, the audience will learn that advancing dental readiness within the Military Health System requires a commitment to high reliability principles that prioritize patient safety, consistent quality care, and robust infection prevention and control measures. It is about making sure every patient receives safe, reliable treatment that supports overall mission readiness. Military dental has gained visibility through continuous improvement, leadership engagement, and team collaboration so that military dental settings can effectively support the broader mission of force health protection.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Highlight key drivers embraced by the Military Health System (MHS) to achieve the highest level of safe, quality care
- Provide an overview of core patient safety functions across the system
- Review key strategies for success specific to infection prevention and control
Steps to Complete Course:
- Click on On-Demand Recording below and watch the video
- Complete the Assessment (requires a passing score of 70%)
- Complete the Evaluation
- Once you complete the Evaluation, you can find your CE Certificate under MY ACCOUNT > MY CERTIFICATES
Course Details
For Distributors
Distributors may purchase multiple copies of packages to distribute to learners, and follow their progress. Bulk discounts are below.
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Instructors
Donald Sheets, Jr, DMD, MS, FACP, FICD
Chief Dental Officer and Military Veteran in the United States Air Force, Defense Health Agency (DHA), and Department of Defense (DoD) as a nationally recognized board certified clinician, accomplished educator/director, and results driven senior healthcare executive.
- Decisive senior healthcare executive with proven ability to organize, lead, develop and optimize plans and processes, and communicate effectively in highly visible joint and interagency environments. Adept at development and execution of budgets, financial/resourcing plans, contracts, project/information management, and lifecycle support plans.
- Dynamic change agent and adept critical thinker with demonstrated success implementing strategic organizational transformation. Skilled and trusted leader.
- Accomplished measurable results developing and executing strategic initiatives to optimize $1.1B in annual healthcare and critical medical force readiness priorities/requirements for 9.6M Department of Defense Military Health System (MHS) beneficiaries.
- Leads Clinical Process Improvement, directs Ready Reliable Care initiatives, conducts system wide clinical area assessments, oversees Graduate Dental Education, develops performance metrics and key dental care requirements for 90K personnel at 364 Military Medical Treatment Facilities (MTFs) across the MHS. Pomulgates strategic priorities, policies and scalable capabilities synchronizing for Joint integrated solutions. Embeds quality and safety culture and drives High Reliability.
Julie Richards, MSN, RN, CIC, FAPIC
Ms. Richards has been in infection prevention and control since 2013. She has been an RN for over 25 years. She has served as an infection preventionist in acute care, ambulatory care, occupational health, behavioral health, home health, sterile processing, public health, dental, leadership reporting, and as a private consultant.