Here is an anonymous email that stated:
I am a dentist that currently works at Kool Smiles. There are many corporate habits that just turn my stomach but I go along because they keep paying me. One thing is that we do not do is change rubber gloves between patients. Can you imagine the health risks that we are taking doing this?
It makes me sick.
Something must be done.
FFl have given Kool Smiles in Atlanta 48 million dollars to expand and DPMS (in San Ramon, CA) another 48 million to expand so they can sell the company off in 2010.
If people are visiting your site, they must be concerned about the impact that you are having with everyone reading your blog. They want to sell the whole thing to someone for hundreds of millions of dollars.
FFL (Friedman, Fleischer and Lowe) has two companies to keep an eye on in their portfolio.
DPMA
From FFL's, Website:
DPMS, Inc. provides various non-clinical services to dental group practices, including providing dental facilities, support staff, and other business services. DPMS's principal client is Kool Smiles, a nationally-branded provider of dental care focused primarily on children enrolled in Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Programs. The limited access to care for children on Medicaid/SCHIP plans provides an attractive growth opportunity for Kool Smiles as it continues to expand offices with a mission to provide quality care to this underserved population.
The company was founded in 2006, and is headquartered in San Ramon, CA.
and
NCDR, LLC (Kool Smiles)
From FFL website:
NCDR, LLC provides various non-clinical services to dental group practices, including providing dental facilities, support staff, and other business services. NCDR's principal client is Kool Smiles, a nationally-branded provider of dental care focused primarily on children enrolled in Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Programs. The limited access to care for children on Medicaid/SCHIP plans provides an attractive growth opportunity for Kool Smiles as it continues to expand offices with a mission to provide quality care to this underserved population.
The company is headquartered in Atlanta, GA. FFL invested in NCDR in 2004 to provide growth capital and liquidity to founders.
1 Must Read Comments:
I worked as a dental hygienist for small smiles, but am no longer there. I personally treated every child the way a loving parent would treat their own child. Many walked out the door with smiles and gave hugs on the way out.
However, I do not agree with some of the things I saw and heard. That is the reason I am no longer there, although I enjoyed and miss the children.
I am disgusted by the letter written by the anonymous Kool Smiles dentist.
"One thing is that we do not do is change rubber gloves between patients. Can you imagine the health risks that we are taking doing this?
It makes me sick.
Something must be done."
YOU know better than to do this. YOU know what danger you are putting these children in. How can you call yourself a DENTIST, and uphold your moral/ethical code and NOT CHANGE GLOVES????? Would you want any healthcare provider treating a child of your own with dirty gloves? Because these are low-income families does not give YOU the right to put those lives in danger.
I do not care if I am paid or not, or who gives me my paycheck, I WILL change gloves between each and every single patient, no matter where I work. Not only that, I WILL wash my hands between each and every patient. Never one time were we told to not change our gloves. In fact, sterilization procedures were not an issue in the office I was in. All was done as should be done.
You should be ashamed of yourself, worry less about what Forba is doing with selling their company, and worry more about the oath you took to care for your patients.
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