Overland Park, Kan.-based Aria Care Partners has entered Arizona with the acquisition of Coronado Dental. Coronado Dental, based in Chandler, Ariz., provides mobile onsite dental care to about 75 skilled nursing facilities in the state, according to a March 18…
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Rhode Island will use $8 million from a new settlement fund to expand pediatric dental care in the state, WPRI reported March 17. The funds derive from an $11 million settlement between a construction company and the state attorney general’s…
Both dental organizations and dentists are looking at partnerships with a longer-term view, rather than straight up sale value. Practice owners want to ensure that the culture they worked years to build will last through any affiliation, and DSOs want…
Rick Workman, DMD, the founder and executive chair of Heartland Dental, was added to this year’s Forbes “World’s Billionaires List.” The 2026 list includes 3,428 billionaires, five of which are from the dental industry. Dr. Workman ranked No. 2,481 on…
Five dental industry leaders were included on Forbes‘ “World’s Billionaires List” for 2026. Forbes used stock prices and exchange rates from March 1 to create this year’s list, which includes a total of 3,428 billionaires. Here are five members of…
Henderson, Nev.-based PDS Health has added Dentira’s procure-to-pay platform. Dentira consolidates procurement processes and vendors in one place that is integrated with an organization’s financial system. The platform is used by several DSOs, including Heartland Dental, MB2 Dental and Affordable…
Hackensack, N.J.-based MAX Surgical Speciality Management recently appointed Jeff Couper as its next CFO. Mr. Couper has more than 20 years of financial leadership experience for several organizations, including DSOs. He most recently served as the CFO of Jefferson Dental…
The era of siloed physician staffing is ending. Yet many health systems still manage locums and permanent recruitment separately, creating higher labor costs, longer vacancy windows and fragmented visibility across service lines. Leading organizations are rethinking this approach. In this…
Apr 30, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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Presenters:
- Teague Morton, Vice President, Permanent Placement, AMN Healthcare
- Janet Pilchard, Executive Director Provider Recruitment, Wellstar Health System
- Christopher Sizemore, MBA, FACHE, FACMPE, Regional Vice President of Operations, Baptist Health System KY & IN
California, Alaska and Missouri are the three states with the highest number of dental professional shortage areas, with 1,231 shortage areas combined. Here are five key statistics about the workforce and shortage areas in these states, using the latest data…
The CEOs of the five largest DSOs have led their companies through several major growth milestones over the years, now overseeing a combined network of roughly 5,600 practices nationwide. Here are the CEOs of the five largest DSOs in the…