Debra Hurwitz, MBA, BSN, RN, CTC-RI Executive Director and Pano Yeracaris MD MPH, Chief Clinical Strategist teamed up to present to the Health Systems Science II course of the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University on February 25.
With almost 50 attendees, the March 19 CTC-RI Clinical Strategy Committee (CSC) meeting had several very engaging presentations and discussions.
On March 5, eleven practices met to kick off a new year-long IBH learning collaborative funded by UnitedHealthcare and the Rhode Island Foundation. Nelly Burdette, PsyD is leading the project, and Kristin David, PhD and Liz Cantor, PhD, will be serving as practice facilitators.
The learning collaborative will focus on two objectives:
CPC+ is ending and Primary Care First is starting up. Ready, Set, Apply! The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing that the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) Model will end on December 31, 2021, for all model participants, regardless of start date.
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On March 26th special guest speaker Allen Dobson, MD, former CEO of Community Care of North Carolina and former Assistant Secretary and Medicaid Director for the North Carolina DHHS presented at the CTC-RI Board of Directors and CHT Oversight Committee meeting to several stakeholders.
CTC-RI hosted the February 25 closing session for the 12-month learning collaborative “Empowering the Safe, Effective and Efficient (S.E.E) Use of Medications in Older Adults.” Kelley Doherty Sanzen, PharmD, PAHM, CDOE facilitated the meeting and the 7 practices presented on their successes with implementing pharmacy-led quality improvement strategies including patient engagement and plans for
Community health teams play a critical role in supporting practices to improve patient care. On March 12, almost 80 clinical practice champions and practice site clinical and administrative leaders gathered virtually to get a deeper understanding of how to practically improve population health and health equity in RI at the CTC-RI/PCMH Kids Breakfast of Champions (BOC).
On March 12, the East Bay Community Action Program and Pawtucket/Central Falls teams reported out on the progress they are making with using the Pathway to Population Health Compass tool to advance the work of understanding the patient population, identifying patients at highest risk that need additional assistance, increasing the impact of people with lived experience and implementing communit
The Rhode to Equity is an innovative funding opportunity made available through EOHHS Health Systems Transformation Project. The intent of this 12-month learning and action collaborative is to provide up to 6 cross-sector teams with the opportunity to t
Mark your calendars for our next telehealth webinar, coming up on April 27, 12-1pm. The webinar will focus on work that is being done in RI to advance remote patient monitoring.
On March 5, eleven practices met to kick off a new year-long IBH learning collaborative funded by UnitedHealthcare and the Rhode Island Foundation. Nelly Burdette, PsyD is leading the project, and Kristin David, PhD and Liz Cantor, PhD, will be serving as practice facilitators.
The learning collaborative will focus on two objectives:
On April 12, CTC-RI Executive Director Debra Hurwitz, MBA, BSN, RN, and Senior IBH Program Director Nelly Burdette, PsyD, teamed up to deliver a presentation to a national audience on CTC-RI’s IBH program at the Milbank Multipayer Primary Care (MPC) Network Virtual Seminar.
March Nurse Care Manager / Care Coordinator (NCM/CC) Best Practice Sharing Meeting
RIDOH, Tufts Health Plan, CTC-RI and PCMH Kids are pleased to offer pediatric and adult practices the opportunity to apply for funding to participate in the primary care “Health Care Transfer of Care” Quality Improvement Initiative”. Family medicine practices are also welcome to apply, providing the practice is willing to partner and accept referrals from a pediatric practice.
Pediatric Alternative Payment Model Learning Session
CTC-RI/PCMH Kids hosted a quarterly PCMH Kids stakeholder meeting on April 1. The discussion started with reflections on the Alternative Payment Models learning session from the night before and addressing questions. Drs. Flanagan and Lange provided an update on how PCMH Kids Cohort 3 performed in their 2nd year in the program, while managing through the demands of a pandemic.
CTC-RI/PCMH Kids hosted its quarterly Pediatric Integrated Behavioral Health Learning Collaborative meeting, with pediatric practices reporting out on progress made with screening for behavioral health needs during COVID 19 and their performance improvement plans.
RIDOH in partnership with CTC-RI/PCMH Kids successfully applied for a 5-year HRSA “Healthy Tomorrows” grant whose goal is to improve communication and care coordination between the Family Visiting Program (FV) and Pediatric Primary Care Practices (PCMH Kids) with a specific focus on improving well-child care.
Northeast Telehealth Resource Center (NETRC) featured CTC-RI in its January Field Report: “Sample Stakeholder Challenges, Solutions and Lessons Learned.” The report highlighted our collaborative work in the 3 phases of our UnitedHealthcare and CARES Act funded Telehealth project: 1.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 4th installation in our "Advancing Team-Based Telehealth in RI" webinar series. The March 23 webinar focused on strategies for community health workers (CHW) and patient navigators to help their clients successfully utilize telehealth.
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.
