With a spotlight on improving health and social outcomes in communities as "Rhode to Equity" applications stay open until May 21, we recently interviewed Carla Wahnon, Manager of Integrated Health Community Health Team at East Bay Community Action Program (EBCAP), one of two teams participating
During the month of April, Community Health Teams and SBIRT screeners had the opportunity to participate in 2 unique trainings. On April 14, Jope Consulting Services hosted Part 2 of an online Motivational Interviewing (MI) training. Twenty-two attendees were able to enhance their skillsets associated with supporting individuals facilitate behavior changes.
For April’s webinar momentum session, the WE Team invited David Waters, MA, Chief Executive Officer of Community Servings, to present on the work they are doing to actively engage the community to provide medically tailored, nutritious, scratch-made meals to chronically and critically ill individuals and their families.
The CTC-RI and RIDOH in collaboration with faculty from URI College of Pharmacy is pleased to announce that the following practices have been selected to join the 2021 Pharmacy Quality Improvement Initiative: Reducing Preventable Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Usage through Team-Based Care.
Last week, 21 practices with representation from both pediatric and adult primary care practices participating in the Telehealth Learning Collaborative came together for a quarterly meeting to share progress and challenges in implementing technology to improve care of patients with chronic con
Mark your calendars for our next telehealth webinar at noon on May 25th. This is the 6th webinar in the "Advancing Team-Based Telehealth in RI" series. The May session will focus on strategies and considerations for pediatric practices.
May’s NCM/CC Best Practice Sharing meeting highlighted multiple different community clinical linkages to support childhood development and lead screening. Beth Lange, MD, PCMH Kids Co-Chair, facilitated a conversation on how PCMH Kids practices are improving care by standardizing workflows and using data to improve identification of children and families in need of follow-up.
On April 27, CTC-RI continued the "Advancing Team-Based Telehealth in RI" series with a webinar addressing remote patient monitoring (RPM) that is being used in RI.
In April 2020, CTC-RI was charged by OHIC and Medicaid to assist in accelerating the adoption of comprehensive primary care capitation.
The May 2021 issue of the Rhode Island Medical Journal features a commentary highlighting the partnership between CTC-RI and MLPB (formerly known as Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston) on offering legal education and problem-solving skills to the community health workforce.
CTC-RI is happy to announce that CME credits are now available for our quarterly Breakfast of Champions meetings. Please make note that the upcoming June 11 Breakfast of Champions discussions are relevant to both Adult and Pediatric practice leaders.
As many RI groups have focused on value-based payment this year, CTC-RI’s Clinical Strategy Committee (CSC) is making significant strides to concentrate on how a capitated alternative payment model (APM) might possibly improve health care.
CTC-RI / PCMH Kids and RIDOH is pleased to announce that the following 10 practices have been selected to join the 2021 Pediatric/Adult Health Care Transfer of Care Quality Improvement Initiative:
In May 2020, the effects the COVID-19 pandemic on accessing well-child care as evidenced by declining pediatric immunization rates was brought to light at various committee meetings.
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.