On September 22, CTC-RI kicked off its first ECHO® training series on the topic of Pediatric Weight Management. Staff from 7 selected pediatric practices participated in this meeting. The meeting began with an overview of the ECHO program and review of expectations. It was then followed with a didactic presentation from Vania Kasper, MD on the Epidemiology of Obesity (AAP guidelines).
CTC-RI and RIDOH's Diabetes, Heart Disease and Stroke Program (DHDS) kicked off the final year of the Care + Community + Equity (CCE) program. At this Best Practice Sharing meeting, enrolled practices reviewed their quality improvement plans for the upcoming year.
Linda Cabral, MM, CTC-RI Senior Program Manager recently had the unique opportunity to attend the Camden Coalition’s annual conference, Putting Care at the Center and to share the work of the Rhode to Equity (R2E) project.
CTC-RI’s September Clinical Strategy Committee meeting provided an engaging presentation and discussion around Primary Care Capitation. The meeting focused on the challenges and strategies for adopting primary care capitation across a larger portion of patients while also learning about how systems of care have positioned themselves for primary care capitation in global risk contracts.
In an exciting kickoff, CTC-RI hosted its first Asthma Essentials ECHO which aims to bring together partners from multiple learning and care communities. CTC-RI was thrilled to welcome providers, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, nurse case managers, community health workers, and school nurses, to engage in the ECHO “all teach, all learn” model through didactic and case presentations.
CTC-RI and PCMH Kids held the quarterly Improving Child Health in RI meeting on October 6 (formerly known as PCMH Kids Stakeholder Meeting). Drs.
The Rhode Island Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP-RI), in partnership with CTC-RI through American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding, invested in exploring how burnout can be identified and resilience can be grown among medical providers who work with children and adolescents.
CTC-RI’s 3-year pediatric integrated behavioral health (IBH) learning collaborative ended in April. Funded by the RI Foundation, Tufts Health Plan, and UnitedHealthcare, its goal was to help 8 practices establish an IBH program to better identify, assess, and treat behavioral health (BH) concerns in their pediatric population.
Because COVID continues to impact practices and patient care, the State Fiscal Year 2023 budget included additional funding for the Medicaid Pediatric Healthcare Recovery Program. Medicaid, in partnership with CTC-RI, is offering a 12-month incentive program to improve immunization and lead screening results and improve capacity to assist children and families with behavioral health needs.
Dec 9 Breakfast of Champions will be part 2 of a focus on unconscious bias.
CTC-RI, in partnership with the RI Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP-RI), recently held a 3-part virtual series on recognizing and reducing burnout among pediatric providers. We asked Allison Brindle, MD, FAAP President, AAP-RI, to reflect on why identifying and addressing burnout and building resiliency among pediatric providers is a priority for AAP-RI.
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.