Coverage that fits how a health center runs

Federally qualified health center is a United States designation under the HRSA Health Center Program. Our US market is Washington, so this page describes how we staff dental operatories at health centers there.

In British Columbia and Ontario the closest equivalent is a community health centre, which operates under provincial rules rather than the federal program. The staffing works the same way, but the compliance context does not, so we keep them separate.

Health centers recruit against the same shortage as private practice, usually in the service areas where it bites hardest and against salary bands set by a grant rather than a market. One hygienist leaving can take an operatory out of service.

Patient volume does not pause while the role is open. A closed chair at a health center is not deferred revenue, it is a population that goes without care and a schedule that has to be rebuilt when the post is finally filled.

Your credentialing and privileging process belongs to you. We do not perform it, shorten it, or ask you to accept ours in its place. What we do is put the documentation your review needs in front of you without you having to chase a professional for it.

• Current state license and registration details
• Certificate of insurance for the placement
• Immunization and health records where your program requires them
• Identity and work authorization documentation
• Work history for the professional being placed

Questions about how a temporary professional sits within your FTCA deeming or your own malpractice coverage are decided by your program and its counsel, not by us. Tell us what your review needs and we will provide it.

Temporary coverage is quoted as an all-in hourly rate before you confirm anything. That figure carries the wage, payroll taxes, and insurance, so there is a single number to put against a grant line rather than a rate plus a set of additions that surface later.

Permanent placements carry a fee that varies by market. It is quoted up front, and it is priced to stay competitive with what a recruiter would charge for the same hire.

Health center patients do better with familiar faces, and a rotating cast of strangers costs you time on every appointment. Professionals who have worked your site can be offered your shifts first, which shortens the odds on a familiar face without promising one. Each date is still theirs to accept, so treat continuity as something that builds rather than something you can book.

Where you want it guaranteed, hire. A booked block for a leave or a locum run holds one professional across the whole period, and a permanent hire holds the position outright.

If somebody fits the team and the population, tell us and we will ask whether they want a permanent role. Plenty of professionals temp because they want the schedule control, so the answer is genuinely theirs.

Every temporary professional is our W2 employee. Licensing, payroll, and insurance sit with us on temp placements, so covering a chair does not add an employment relationship or a payroll line to your health center.