Improving Child Health in RI Quarterly Meeting – January 2025

  • 10 Jan 2025

Improving Child Health in RI Quarterly Meeting – January 2025 

January’s Improving Child Health in RI meeting kicked off the year with an Early Childhood Café encompassing presentations from the following early childhood programs:  

  • Reach out and Read RI (RORRI) with Smithfield Pediatrics sharing their experience using the program. 
  • Know the Signs. Act Early. 
  • Prescription 4 Play with Providence Community Health Center sharing their experience using the program. 
  • Greatest 8 with Tri-County sharing their experience using the program. 

 Blythe Berger, PhD, RI Department of Health, Chief of Perinatal and Early Childhood Health provided a warm welcome to the PCMH Kids practices and key stakeholders and reflected on the long history of collaboration between RIDOH and the pediatric primary care practices that has consistently focused on improving child health in Rhode Island. Drs Flanagan and Lange wrapped up the meeting with a preview of some new program opportunities in 2025 and announced the 2025 PediPRN Intensive Program. For those unable to attend or want to refer back to the meeting, the recording and presentation can be accessed here.