Clinical Strategy Meeting Focuses on Supporting Primary Care Providers in Pregnancy Intent
CTC-RI’s December 2022 Clinical Strategy Committee meeting focused on the role of pregnancy intention in improving birth outcomes and access to same-day LARC.
January 2023
New CTC-RI Projects and Funding for 2023
With generous funding support from UnitedHealthcare, Rhode Island Department of Health and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, CTC-RI will launch several innovative projects in 2023 to invest in and strengthen primary care capacity in several priority areas. Anticipated projects in the new year include:
Best Practices in Team-Based Care Meetings
December Best Practices in Team-Based Care: Incontinence in Older Adults
Application Launched for UMASS Integrated Behavioral Health Training
CTC-RI is excited to launch a new application for the spring session of the UMass Chan Medical School Certificate Course in Primary Care Behavioral Health.
Medicaid Pediatric Healthcare Recovery Program – Year 2
With funding from the Medicaid Pediatric Healthcare Recovery grant, KIDSNET has launched a new immunization report in the KIDSNET reporting system that will assist practices in identifying children that are due for immunizations.
Improving Care for People with Asthma: Working with Community Partners ECHO Session
Our 4th Asthma Essentials ECHO session brought together 48 participants and was facilitated by Pat Flanagan, MD. The didactic session, presented by Daniel Fitzgerald, MPH, ICPS, American Lung Association and Ashley Fogarty, MPH, Rhode Island Department of Health, focused on “Working with Community Partners”.
RI MomsPRN Learning Collaborative on Alcohol Use in Perinatal Women
The RI Maternal Psychiatry Resource Network (RI MomsPRN) Program funded by the RI Department of Health, in partnership with CTC-RI, hosted our quarterly learning collaborative meeting this month which included a presentation by Mary Velasquez, PhD on alcohol use in perinatal women. Participating practices repo
Our Mission
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.