The CTC-RI Board of Directors is pleased to announce that it has approved 9 pediatric primary care practice sites to participate in the Pediatric IBH primary care program. This IBH expansion, funded by Rhode Island Foundation, Tufts Health Plan and UnitedHealthcare, serves ~40,000 kids and an average Medicaid population of 52% with some sites as high as 80-90% Medicaid.
On May 30th, the American Academy of Pediatrics RI Chapter hosted the final meeting for the PCMH Kids Adolescent Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Learning Collaborative at the Warren Alpert Medical School. This learning collaborative would not have been possible without the support and funding from Tufts Health Plan and the AAP Healthy Children Grant. Drs.
CTC-RI hosted a quarterly meeting with PCMH Kids practices and key stakeholders on June 6th. Dr. Flanagan reviewed practice incentive results. 15 out of 20 PCMH Kids practices met 3 out of 4 quality measure thresholds and are eligible for incentive payments from the health plans. 100% of PCMH Kids practices met Developmental Screening targets. In addition, Dr.
PCMH Kids practices will be eligible to receive multi-payer sustainability payments when they complete the PCMH Kids contract. Medicaid has confirmed that it is including PCMH Kids sustainability payments in the managed care rates for FY2020.
RI World Diabetes Day (RIWDD) was launched in 2019 by the RI Department of Health as a vehicle for raising awareness about diabetes and its impact on residents. The event exemplifies the strong collaboration between the many community organizations, state government officials, health entities, and community residents who are committed to decreasing the prevalence of diabetes.
Complex Care Conversations is an interactive curriculum designed for small groups to increase clinician ease and effectiveness in approaching goals of care conversations with patients dealing with serious, progressive illnesses such as heart failure, cancer and dementia.
Comprehensive Community Action Plan's (CCAP) Director of Nursing, Arthur Taylor, RN led this initiative, and he will be attending the TCPi Exposition & Marketplace on August 7 and 8 in Baltimore with the RIQI (RI-PTN) team.
Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) is the use of FDA-approved medications, in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies, to provide a "whole-patient" approach to the treatment of substance use disorders. Buprenorphine, methadone and naltrexone are considered evidence-based treatment approaches.
Youth Mental Health First Aid is an eight-hour training course spread over two days (August 1 and 2, from 8am to 12:30pm) designed to give members of the public key skills to help an adolescent who is developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis.
The Brown University School of Public Health is now just 40 participants away from meeting their Mindfulness-Based Blood Pressure Reduction (MB-BP) study enrollment goal! Thanks to many of you they have been right on track with recruitment.
In May, the Rhode Island Foundation awarded $2.6 million in grants to six non-profit organizations to fund behavioral health care services in the state.
In a first-of-its-kind study, this year's PCPCC Report provides quantitative data and analysis of primary care spend at the state and payer levels, as well as a window into t
CTC-RI has successfully moved up the timeline for CAHPS survey fielding to September and October (as opposed to November and December) which is anticipated to improve patient response rate.
In an effort to ensure CTC-RI Practices are on track to obtain sustainability payments with the Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner when eligible, CTC-RI now offers practices an "OHIC Targets" tab to view their quarterly clinical quality data against OHIC's thresholds. For Q1 and Q2 2019, practices can view measures data displays of both Adult Cohort 4 and 5; and PCMH Kids Cohort 2.
Please register and attend the CTC-RI Quarterly Breakfast of Champions. All Clinical Practice Champions and practice site clinical and administrative leaders are expected to attend.
CTC-RI presented at the International Conference of Practice Facilitators in Baltimore, MD, June 26-27.
Jennifer Etue, MSA, LICSW, Wendy Phillips, LMFT and Kristin David, Psy.D completed CTC-RI's Advanced Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) Practice Facilitation Training Program. The IBH Training Program was developed and led by CTC-RI's Senior IBH Program Leader, Nelly Burdette, Psy.D.
Practice team members and key stakeholders should save the date for the next CTC-RI Annual Conference "Advancing Integrated Primary Care: Innovations at Work" on October 24 at the Crowne Plaza.
On July 11, CTC-RI and PCMH Kids officially welcomed the 8 pediatric primary care practice sites to the Pediatric Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) Learning Collaborative program.
In January 2015, 25 adult practices representing 90,000 patients and 100 providers entered into the Care Transformation Collaborative of Rhode Island program as "Cohort 4" with the goal of improving quality, customer experience and reducing costs.
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.