Every resident gets daily mouth care. Every aide knows how. Every surveyor can see it.

Bedside Oral Health trains every aide in daily mouth care, tracks every in-service hour your building has to prove, and keeps your survey binder current. Designed by a practicing dentist. You don’t pay until every aide is signed off.

Book a free 30-minute in-service See the program

Oral care training, by unitSunrise Manor · 92 beds

Unit	Aides trained	Status
North hall		Complete
South hall		Complete
Memory care		2 aides pending
Night shift		1 aide pending

Competency sign-offs on file: 41 of 44Roster exports for survey

Mouth care is the task that gets skipped, and it shows up later as pneumonia.

Federal requirements say facilities must provide daily oral hygiene and arrange routine and emergency dental care for every resident. Most aides get a few minutes on it in training. Then the shift gets busy, the resident refuses, the denture goes missing, and nothing gets charted. Bedside gives your staff the skills and your building the paperwork.

1 in 3

Pneumonia cut to a third

In an 11-facility randomized trial, residents receiving daily oral care had about one-third the pneumonia of controls, and fewer pneumonia deaths.

Yoneyama T, et al. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2002;50(3):430–433.

1 in 10

Pneumonia deaths preventable

A systematic review concluded that roughly one in ten deaths from pneumonia in elderly nursing home residents may be prevented by better oral hygiene.

Sjögren P, et al. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2008;56(11):2124–2130.

1 in 5

Older adults with untreated decay

Nearly all adults 65 and older have had a cavity, and one in five has untreated tooth decay. Residents arrive with these mouths.

CDC, Division of Oral Health. Oral Health for Older Americans. 2024.

F790 / F791

Facilities must assist residents in obtaining routine and 24-hour emergency dental care (42 CFR 483.55), provide oral hygiene for dependent residents (483.24, F676/F677), and give nurse aides at least 12 hours of in-service education each year (483.95).

Our program and documentation are written to match this language. Ask us about your last survey.

Eight short modules, built for a CNA’s shift.

Each module runs five to ten minutes on a phone and ends with a short check. Two of them are skills simulators that follow the Texas nurse aide skills evaluation step for step, so your aides practice exactly what the state tests. The whole program is about an hour of in-service credit.

1
Why the mouth matters after 70
How a dirty mouth becomes pneumonia.
2
Daily brushing for a dependent resident
Skills simulator: the 19 steps the state tests.
3
Dentures: cleaning, labeling, the first hour
Skills simulator, and what to do when one goes missing.
4
Dry mouth, medications, and eating
Spot it, relieve it, report it.
5
When a resident refuses care
Six techniques. Never force. Counts as dementia and abuse-prevention in-service.
6
Looking in the mouth: what to report
Eight things to check, and which ones get reported today.
7
Charting oral care so it counts
If it isn’t charted, it didn’t happen.
8
Positioning and aspiration precautions
Upright, never flat, and when to stop.

What your facility receives

Staff training, on any device

Modules with checks, on phones or the nurses’ station computer. New hires are enrolled automatically.

In-service hour tracking for every aide

Every topic, date, and hour, with a Monday “who’s behind” email and a one-click report for the 12-hour and 24-hour rules.

Your survey binder, kept current

Policy, competencies, in-service records, QAPI. When the surveyor walks in, you print it.

Competency sign-off on a tablet

Your nurse observes the aide, taps each checkpoint, signs. The PDF files itself.

Plan-of-correction help

Cited on oral hygiene or dental services while on the program? We draft the plan with you within 48 hours. No charge.

Written policy, denture protocol, QAPI project

Adopted in the app with your facility’s name, versioned, and printable.

Welcome kit for the floor

Bedside posters, pocket cards for every aide, denture labeling kit.

A letter for families

A one-page handout telling families their loved one’s mouth care is done by staff trained by a dentist.

One fee per building. You don’t pay until it’s done.

We run the kickoff in-service, load your roster, chase the stragglers, and hand your director of nursing a finished binder. When every aide is trained and signed off, we send the invoice. If that hasn’t happened within 30 days, you owe nothing.

Bedside Oral Health program

$1,200

per facility, per year · founding rate for the first ten buildings

All modules for unlimited staff, new hires included
In-service hour tracking for every aide, every topic
Survey binder kept current; plan-of-correction help if cited
Competency sign-off on a tablet, filed automatically
Policy, denture protocol, QAPI project, family letter
Invoiced only after every aide is signed off

Start with a free in-service

Why it’s hard to say no

Nurse aides need 12 hours of in-service every year, and someone has to prove it. Our program delivers a share of those hours, documented, and tracks the rest. That makes it a cheaper way to do something you’re already required to do.

12-month agreement, cancel with 30 days’ notice. Corporate or regional? Ask about a three-building pilot.

What’s next: a dentist your nurses can reach

Facilities are required to arrange dental care, but “the dentist” is usually a name on a form. We’re planning a service that puts a licensed dentist within reach of your nursing staff for questions and guidance, through a separate licensed clinical entity. Planned for 2027. Tick the box on the form below and we’ll tell you first.

Book a free 30-minute in-service for your staff

A dentist teaches your aides one practical skill by video call, no strings attached. It counts toward your annual in-service hours, and you’ll see exactly how the program works.

Or email hello@bedsideoralhealth.com