Dental service organization (DSO) Pacific Dental Services (PDS) has opened its first co-located dental-medical practice, Culver Smiles Dentistry.
It is the first of several co-located practices that will open over the next five years that featuring dental offices located within select MemorialCare health centers located across Orange and Los Angeles counties in California. Practices will utilize the Epic electronic health records system, which will enable collaboration between physicians and oral health providers, PDS stated.
Pacific Dental Services and MemorialCare celebrate the completion of their first co-located medical-dental integrated practice site. From left to right: Alex Creelman, PDS Regional Partner, Dr. Carolyn Ghazal, PDS Chair of GP Platform Development, Dan Burke, PDS Chief Enterprise Strategy Officer, Dr. Deepika Dhama, owner of Culver Smiles Dentistry, Dr. Andrea Murchie, MemorialCare primary care physician, Barry Arbuckle, MemorialCare President and CEO, and Dr. David Kim, CEO of MemorialCare Medical Group. Image and caption courtesy of PDS.
