In our 2019 Annual Report, Improving Population Health Through Comprehensive Primary Care, learn about the ways CTC-RI -- as a cultivator, innovator, and implementor -- has brought together health leaders to find ways to better approach the way Rhode Islanders receive care, and the way care teams are supported in their jobs.
On February 6, Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) screeners from CTC-RI Community Health Teams were able to participate in the SBIRT Refresher Training presented by Taylor D'Addario, SBIRT Manager at The Providence Center.
Governor Raimondo released the FY2021 Proposed Budget last month, which includes proposals on page 594 related to Article 21 on tobacco and e-cigarettes.
CTC-RI has received all CAHPS data results from the 2019-2020 Patient Experience report, prepared by certified NCQA vendor, DataStat. The related data displays are now available in the CTC Portal under Data Display Quality and Customer Experience Measures: (Adult/PCMH Kids). View your practice performance results by Cohort and by Individual Practice Site(s) from within the secure CTC Portal.
Save the date for the next CTC-RI Annual Conference on October 8, 2020 in Warwick.
The adult practices enrolled in the IBH expansion program funded by UnitedHealthcare successfully completed the 12-month learning collaborative on February 13.
CTC-RI has a unique partnership with the Medical Legal Partnership of Boston (MLPB). MLPB equips health and human service workforces with upstream problem-solving strategies that improve people's social determinants of health. By leveraging their public interest law expertise, they are able to advance health equity for individuals, families, and communities.
As part of the CTC-RI Common Contract, practices are asked to develop a performance improvement plan for improving a clinical quality, customer experience, or utilization metric. Adult practices (Cohort 5) and
The CTC-RI website has a new look, with news and announcements highlighted at the top.
The Rhode Island College School of Social Work has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration for the Rhode Island Integrated Care Education (RIICE) Project.
The RI Department of Health (RIDOH) and national public health officials continue to respond to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Although there have not been any cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Rhode Island, they want to make sure that our communities and our healthcare system are prepared. Being informed is an important part of being prepared.
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 and the RI Department of Health (RIDOH) in collaboration with faculty from the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy are pleased to announce that the following practices have been selected to join the Pharmacy Quality Improvement Initiative, which has been funded by UnitedHealthcare and RIDOH:
As we settle into 2020, we want to recognize this past year's members of the CTC Board of Directors for their board service commitment and dedication to primary care transformation. Our new board members are: Benjamin Shaffer, MPA; Ana Stankovic, MD, FASN, Noah Benedict, MHL; Michelle Anvar, MD; Hugo Yamada, MD; and Margaret Wingate.
CTC-RI and PCMH Kids programs recognize the importance of clinician and care team well-being. We deployed a Clinician Well-Being Survey for the 3rd consecutive year to help inform our collective efforts to improve provider burnout. We continue to collaborate with the Primary Care Physician Advisory Committee of the RI Department of Health to address burnout.
In recognition of the importance of national COVID-19 containment efforts, effective Monday, March 16, 2020, CTC-RI/PCMH Kids will convert all meetings to virtual Zoom video conferencing meetings. This will be CTC-RI's policy for the next 4 weeks. We then will reevaluate in consultation with the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) guidance.
CTC-RI is providing weekly the latest health-related news, media announcements, resources, and updates for our CTC-RI practice and community members during the COVID-19 crisis.
At the March 2020 Nurse Care Manager/Care Coordinator Best Practice Sharing Meeting, Mike Simoli and Margaret Gradie from RI Department of Health presented on Coronavirus Disease 2019; In anticipation of new requirement for PCMH Kids practices to report on lead screening, Michel
At the February 2020 CTC-RI Board of Directors meeting, there were a number of presentations around the vital role that access to safe, stable, and affordable housing plays in ensuring good health for children and families. Of the many social determinants of health, housing stability is among the most basic and influential.
The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH), in partnership with CTC-RI, will be offering a five-month learning collaborative whose aim will be to build clinical-community linkages across primary care clinics and Health Equity Zones (CBOs) to improve population health for people with diabetes who have significant equity challenges, and who are at higher-risk for COVID-19.
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.