Ten Practices Join CTC-RI’s 2025 Initiative to Advance Demographic Data Use in Primary Care Quality Improvement

  • 15 May 2025

Building on Progress: Ten Practices Join CTC-RI’s 2025 Initiative to Advance Demographic Data Use in Primary Care Quality Improvement

Ten primary care practices have been selected to participate in the CTC-RI “2025 Implementing Improvements in Collection and Use of Patient Demographic Data in Primary Care Quality Improvement Initiative.” This initiative, generously funded by UnitedHealthcare, focuses on advancing how practices collect and use patient demographic data to improve clinical outcomes and address health disparities.

Yolanda Bowes
rogram Manager
Program manager, Yolanda Bowes says, “we hope this project will expand CTC-RI’s efforts to engage and support primary care practices of all types, and strengthen our work with practices who have demonstrated improvement in demographic data collection through participation in CTC’s 2023 and 2024 learning and quality improvement programs. “
The project has two main goals:

  1. Engage and Support primary care practices (pediatric, family medicine and adult medicine) in a data driven quality improvement initiative to measure and improve their capture and reporting of accurate and complete demographic data information and

  2. Improve practices’ use of patient demographic information to stratify clinical outcomes such as adult diabetes and adolescent well-child visits, identify disparities, and implement targeted strategies to improve clinical outcomes. 

The following four practices will work with a CTC-RI practice facilitator to strengthen the collection of race, ethnicity, and language (REL) data and conduct a baseline assessment to identify a second area for improvement:

  • Atlantic Pediatrics
  • Brown Medicine Primary Care
  • Rhode Island Medicine
  • University Family Medicine

Six additional practices, having participated in the 2024 initiative, will now focus on applying their enhanced demographic data collection to stratify a selected clinical measure. Their aim is to identify patient populations that may be facing barriers to care and take action to improve outcomes:

  • Chad E. Lamendola, MD, LTD
  • Medical Associates of RI, Inc.
  • Northeast Internal Medicine
  • Pilgrim Park Physicians
  • Southcoast Health Tiverton Family Medicine
  • Your Health, Inc.

Over the course of the nine-month project, all ten practices will convene regularly as a learning collaborative to share their strategies, challenges, and successes in this work.  As noted by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, achieving equitable care begins with accurately identifying patient populations, an effort that relies on the systematic collection of standardized, granular demographic data. Since 2023, CTC-RI has worked with primary care practices across the state to improve the quality of demographic data collection and its use in practice transformation.

Practices interested in learning more can view reports and webinar presentations from the 2023 Train-the-Trainer Pilot on the CTC-RI website HERE.