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Ninth District Headquarters Office - Hawthorne, NY

2025 Ninth District President

Dr. Renuka Bijoor

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Welcome to the Ninth District Dental Association

The Ninth District Dental Society was formed in 1909 and renamed to the Ninth District Dental Association in 2002. We have a membership of over 1500 dentists in 5 counties: Westchester, Rockland, Dutchess, Orange and Putnam.

In its quest to serve both the public and the profession, the Ninth District embodies the highest ideals.

The mission of the 9^th District Dental Association is to serve and support its members and the public by improving the oral health of our community through Advocacy, Continuing Education and Camaraderie.

The Ninth District Dental Association

New Dentist Reception

Come Join Your New Dentist Colleagues!

Thursday, November 20, 2025
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Vida Restaurant
14 Marble Avenue
Thornwood, NY 10594

There will be passed hors d'oeuvres, beer & wine, vendors, and lots of fun FOR ALL NEW DENTISTS, Residents,
and D4 Dental Students!

Meet local new dentists whoa are also starting their career in dentistry! Learn how other new dentists and established dentists navigated their first steps after dental school and residency!

There will be dentists in all Specialties, as well as General Practitioners. Ninth District Dental Association Leaders will be present.

Register for the November 20th New Dentist Reception!

We will have established co-sponsors to assist all New Dentists with anything practice related!

Co-Sponsors (names are links to website)

Altfest Personal Wealth Management

DDSMatch

Danziger & Markhoff LLP

MLMIC Insurance Co.

We Hope to See You There!!

Lana Hashim, DDS
Chair, New Dentist Committee

Renuka Bijoor, DDS, MPH
President

Latest News Around the Tripartite

HHS OIG Issues Three Reports on Hospitals

Jul 29, 2025

Per the notice below, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued three reports on hospitals and patient safety issues.

Hospitals Did Not Capture Half of Patient Harm Events, Limiting Information Needed to Make Care Safer (OEI-06-18-00401)

In 2022, OIG published a report determining that 25 percent of Medicare enrollees hospitalized in October 2018 experienced patient harm during their hospital stays.  In this new report, OIG traced the harm events that we identified in 2022 to examine whether hospitals captured those events in their own incident reporting or other surveillance systems and to understand what actions they took in response. Hospitals did not capture half of patient harm events that occurred among hospitalized Medicare patients. Of the patient harm events that hospitals captured, few were investigated, and even fewer led to hospitals making improvements for patient safety.

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Hospitals Reported Few Captured Patient Harm Events to CMS and States (OEI-06-18-00402)

This is a companion report to Hospitals Did Not Capture Half of Patient Harm Events, Limiting Information to Make Care Safer. This memorandum report provided to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) raises concerns that hospitals are not consistently following reporting requirements intended to monitor patient safety. We determined that hospitals nationwide identified and captured in their incident reporting (or other surveillance systems) 94 harm events experienced by Medicare patients with stays ending in October 2018. Per CMS and State requirements, hospitals were obligated to report 15 (16 percent) of the harm events to external entities. Yet, in our sample, hospitals reported only five events.

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CMS Should Take Additional Actions To Help Hospitals Prepare for a Future Emerging Infectious Disease Outbreak (A-02-22-01019)

OIG released an audit building upon prior work to assess the operating effectiveness of CMS controls related to emerging infectious disease outbreaks. OIG identified gaps in CMS controls that could negatively affect hospital preparedness during a future event with a scope and duration similar to that of the COVID-19 pandemic. The audit found CMS’ oversight of hospital surveyors did not ensure that surveyors were trained to cover key planning areas for an emerging infectious disease outbreak.

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