The Rhode Island Department of Health is pleased to announce a funding opportunity/call for applications for practices providing prenatal and postpartum clinical care.
The committee met on September 18 to discuss pandemic-related updates and other issues to include flu vaccine targets, outreach and supply. Expanding IBH, CHWs, and remote monitoring were some of the immediate issues and activities prioritized at practice and SOC levels. Infant home visiting programs with PCMHs (Healthy Tomorrows) is a new project.
46 practices (34 adults and 12 pediatric) signed participative agreements for completing practice needs assessment/patient engagement surveys with a completion date of September 25. CTC-RI is working with Northeast Regional Telehealth Resource Center to analyze, aggregate and display the findings that will be used to inform:
Linda Mencona and Kathy Marceau, Rhode Island Department of Health school nurse consultants, provided an important update on back-to-school program and coordination with pediatric practices at the September 15 NCM/CC meeting. Denise deHertogh and Camero
Convergence RI
Including mention of PCMH-Kids, a September 14 article in Convergence RI highlights how the rapid adoption of telehealth as a platform in the delivery of health care is redefining the office visit and the future relationship between patients and providers
Brown University has been awarded a grant from the RI Foundation to conduct a qualitative evaluation of patients who participated in our adult IBH pilot program. Understanding the IBH patient perspective will be the focus of the study. CTC-RI will partner with Brown to recruit patients to participate in focus groups and individual interviews.
CTC-RI and PCMH Kids programs met on September 11 when a discussion of practices' plans for back-to-school and sick visits was co-led by Gregory Fox, MD, FAAP, President RIAAP and Beth Lange, MD, FAAP, PCMH Kids co-chair. Dr. Lange followed up with an update on the Pediatric Relief Fund / Pediatric Advisory Board.
On Friday, September 25, the CTC-RI Board of Directors had the opportunity to provide feedback on the statewide health information technology (HIT) strategic roadmap and implementation plan. Marti Rosenberg, EOHHS Dir.
According to the most recent results shared by the Primary Care Collaborative and Larry A.
Through our contract with the Medical Legal Partnership of Boston (MLPB), on September 8th, Community Health Teams (CHTs) participated in a training: “Navigating DCYF in General - and as a Family Impacted by SUD”. In this webinar, CHTs were able to better understand the DCYF intake and investigation process and identify the unique barriers and challenges for families impacted by substance use d
Over 75 attendees participated in the RI Diabetes Health Equity Challenge “Learning and Doing” Action Network close-out session held on September 18. Stakeholders learned how the two Challenge pilot team
The flu vaccine is safe and is the best defense against the flu. The Office of Immunization provides flu vaccination at no cost for students in kindergarten through grade 12 at school-based clinics.
The Governor’s Relief Fund provided primary care practices with essential financial support that has enabled practices to make substantial gains in providing children with preventive health care services prior to the start of the school year.
RI Health Insurance Commissioner Marie Ganim, PhD, has provided guidance for primary care practices on the changes to the 2020 meaningful performance improvement requirements in response to the impact of COVID-19. A practice seeking OHIC PCMH recognition status has historically
To help address the behavioral health needs of perinatal patients during COVID-19, the RI Department of Health and CTC-RI are pleased to offer practices providing prenatal and postpartum clinical care the opportunity to join the RI MomsPRN (RI Maternal Psychiatry Resource Network) perinatal behavioral health quality improvement initiative.
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.