You and Your Family Relocate to Another State Because Your

You and your family relocate to another state because your spouse is transferred. Once there, you find that the population of the state has more cultural diversity and a higher rate of poverty than anywhere else you have lived. You take a clinical dental hygiene position in a corporate dental clinic. After your first week on the job, you realize that your patient population is primarily of a lower socioeconomic status than you have experienced in the past and most of the children are on Medicaid. You begin to learn more about the population of your state, their culture, and cultural issues in general.
-You have always placed importance on practicing dental hygiene with a patient-centered care approach. You are interested to learn that cultural competence relates to patient-centered care. All of the following EXCEPT one describe the relationship of cultural competence and patient-centered care. Which one is the EXCEPTION?

A) Patient-centered care and culturally competent care share the same emphasis, which is to increase health equity and reduce disparities.
B) At the core of both patient-centered and culturally competent care is the emphasis on seeing the patient as a unique person.
C) Both patient-centered care and culturally competent care address individual patients' needs, preferences, and goals, thus complementing each other in achieving quality of care.
D) Both patient-centered care and culturally competent care depend on a patient-centered approach.