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Charge: Best practice sharing from team-based care

(Recommended attendees (depending on topic): clinical practice champions, practice leaders/staff, nurse care managers, pharmacist, behavioral health clinicians, community health workers healthcare stakeholders and community organizations.)

Meeting Frequency

3rd Tuesday Monthly
8:00-9:30AM

Facilitators

Deb Hurwitz

Susanne Campbell

Charge:  Responsible for strategic direction and overall governance of the program.

(committee members and committee chairs only)

 

Meeting Frequency

4th Friday Monthly
7:30-8:45AM

Location

Healthcentric Advisors,
235 Promenade St, # 500
Providence, RI

President

Peter Hollmann

 

 

Co-Conveners

Cory King
 
Kristin Sousa

 

 

Board of Directors Resources

 

Charge:  Quarterly meeting to focus on best practice sharing, learning to strengthen team based care, and foster joy in work as critical components of advanced primary care/ PCMH transformation.

(Recommended attendees: clinical practice champions, practice leaders/staff, nurse care managers, healthcare stakeholders and community organizations.)

 

Facilitators

Pano Yeracaris

Patricia Flanagan

 

Meeting Frequency

2nd Friday Quarterly
7:30-9:00AM
(Mar, Jun, Sep, Dec)
 

Charge: Identify, discuss and test clinical and financial strategies to improve quality and reduce cost across the RI healthcare system.

(committee members only – by invitation)

 

Meeting Frequency

3rd Friday Monthly
7:30-9:00AM

Co-Chairs


Barry Fabius

Paul Larson

 

CTC Clinical Strategy Committee Charter

 

CTC-Clinical Strategy Committee Materials

  • Primary Care and Specialist Collaboration featuring Scott Shipman, MD, MPH, Director of Clinical Innovations and Director of Primary Care Initiatives, Association of American Medical Colleges on March 18, 2022

Charge: Lead performance improvement, measure selection and harmonization; develop goals and benchmarks, evaluation, research, and liaison with the APCD. Serve as liaison to other committees.

(Recommended attendees:  IT/HIT/data analysts)

Meeting Frequency

1st Tuesday of Mar, Apr, May, Jun
7:30-9:00AM

Location

Healthcentric Advisors
235 Promenade St
Suite #500 (5th Floor)
Providence, RI 02908
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Charge:  To recommend CTC financial policies, goals, and budgets as well as review CTC’s financial performance against its goals and propose major transactions and programs to the Board of Directors.

*Health Plans may invite additional financial staff

 

Meeting Frequency

Tuesdays, 2022: November 22,
Tuesdays, 2023: January 24, February 21, March 21, April 25, May 16, September 19, November 21
3:00-4:00PM
and
at the call of the Committee Chair.

Location

HealthCentric Advisors
235 Promenade Street, #500
Providence, RI 

Treasurer and Chair

Noah Benedict, Treasurer
RI Primary Care Physician Corp.
 

Charge:  To guide and drive child and adolescent improvement activities in RI.

(Recommended attendees: clinical practice champions, practice leaders/staff, nurse care managers, healthcare stakeholders and community organizations.)

Meeting Frequency

1st Thursday Quarterly
7:30-8:30AM
(Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct)

Co-Chairs

Patricia Flanagan
Elizabeth Lange

Charge: Lead the transformation of primary care in RI in the context of an integrated health care system.

(Recommended attendees:  health plans, primary care and behavioral health providers, and key stakeholders)

 

Meeting Frequency

2nd Thursday Monthly
7:30-9:00AM 
•Adult Program (Feb)
•Committee Meetings (Mar, June, Sept, Dec)
•Pediatric Pilot Program (Apr, July, Oct, Jan)

 

Co-Chairs

Rena Sheehan
 
John F. Todaro

This committee will meet on an “ad hoc” basis moving forward

Charge: To convene key stakeholder to build on the work produced by the OHIC Task Force on Prior Authorization in order to develop concrete consensus recommendations that take into account health plans/ payers, providers and patients’ needs for a more effective, less burdensome and resource intensive prior approval process and also supports evidence-based, affordable, high-quality care, mitigates cost trends, and reduces unnecessary/unsafe service and medication utilization. 

 

Meeting Frequency

2nd Thursday Monthly
7:30-9:00AM 
 

Co-Chairs

Karen Labbe, RN, BCBS-RI
 
Peter Hollmann, MD

 

 

 

Charge: This group will establish best practices for encouraging more primary care engagement, including incentives for trainees and trainers, and new models of interdisciplinary and team-based care training and strategies for retention of primary care providers in Rhode Island.

Primary Care Workforce Task Force Legislation

Take Action Tool Kit        Letter of Support Template

Primary Care Workforce Task Force Strategic Roadmap Report

Primary Care Access for All:  A Strategic Roadmap for Patient Access and Primary Care Workforce Capacity Building

Report References

AHEAD Model Sample Letter of Support

Meeting Frequency

2nd Wednesday Monthly
8:00-9:00AM 
 

Co-Chairs

Jeffrey Borkan, MD
 
Denise Coppa, PhD, APRN-CNP, FNP-C, PCPNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN

 

 

 

Contracting Committee

Charge:  Responsible for contract development, attribution, and looking at alternate payment models and PCMH as part of a delivery system as well as a common contract for PCMH Kids sustainability payments. Serve as liaison to other committees.

(Recommended attendees: health plans, provider champions and organization leadership)

 

Meeting Frequency

TBD

Location

Healthcentric Advisors
235 Promenade St # 500
Providence, RI
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Facilitators

Susanne Campbell

Pano Yeracaris

Resources
 
Program Evaluation Committee

Charge: Coordination of the CTC-RI Evaluation Process.

(Recommended attendees: staff interested in data and program evaluation)

 

Meeting Frequency

4th Monday Quarterly
(Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct)
9-10:30AM

Location

RIQI 
50 Holden Street 3rd floor
Providence, RI
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Chairs

 

Community Health Team Oversight Committee

Charge: A subcommittee of the Board responsible for providing oversight of CTC’s engagement with the multi-payer Community Health Team initiative.

(Recommended attendees: those with content expertise in CHTs and addressing the needs of high-risk populations. The Committee will have co-chairs representing payer and provider perspectives. Desired representation on the committee includes payers, providers, patients and families; ACO’s, AE, and systems of care.)

 

Meeting Frequency

4th Friday Monthly
9:00-10:00AM

Location

HealthCentric Advisors
235 Promenade Street, #500
Providence, RI 

Chair

 

 

* CTC-RI is now offering CME credits for select meetings, including asynchronous viewing of meeting recordings. See the CME page here

Our Mission

The mission of CTC-RI is to support the continuing transformation of primary care in Rhode Island as the foundation of an ever-improving integrated, accessible, affordable, and equitable health care system.  CTC-RI brings together critical stakeholders to implement, evaluate and spread effective multi-payer models to deliver, pay for and sustain high-quality, comprehensive, accountable primary care.