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 Centers sharing their experience using the program. 
  • Greatest 8 with Tri-County sharing their experience using the program. 

Blythe Berger, PhD, RIDOH Chief of Perinatal and Early Childhood Health welcomed the PCMH Kids practices and key stakeholders while also reflecting on the long collaborative history between RIDOH and the pediatric primary care practices that has consistently focused on improving RI child health. Drs. Flanagan and Lange wrapped up the meeting with a preview of some new 2025 program opportunities and announced the 2025 PediPRN Intensive Program. The recording and presentation can be accessed here.