Our monthly Best Practices in Team-Based Care Meeting continues to highlight best practices from across the state. In April, CareLink presented on non-pharmacological interventions for dementia.
In April, the new Healthy Tomorrows cohort met to share information about themselves, their agency or practice, and their goals for the 12-month collaborative.
With funding from RIDOH, CTC-RI is launching a new seven-series Care Coordination ECHO®--a virtual learning community offered at no cost. This all-teach, all-learn model includes a brief presentation from a subject matter expert followed by a case study to elicit discussion and recommendations.
In May, the Community Health Team (CHT) Expansion project, funded by RIDOH, brought together South County Health and East Bay Community Action Program practice teams for a best practice sharing meeting.
CTC-RI hosted the final wrap-up meeting of our NCQA Behavioral Health (BH) Distinction Year 2 Learning Collaborative. This opportunity was possible through funding from UnitedHealthcare, and the project has supported 14 practices across the 2-year program.
This month, in partnership with RIDOH and EOHHS, CTC-RI hosted the 2nd Rhode to Equity Conference which brought together the 6 Rhode to Equity teams, state partners, managed care organization staff, community health workers (CHW) and other relevant stakeholders. Approximately 85 people attended the event.
CTC-RI will host its quarterly Breakfast of Champions Meeting on June 9 at 7:30am. Dr. Peter Anderson and Stephen Moberg, Executive VP & COO, both of Team Care Medicine, and Dr. Arnold Goldberg, Thundermist will present their progress with developing care teams using medical assistants (MA) as scribes.
CTC'RI’s April Clinical Strategy Committee meeting focused on improving health equity through demographic data collection. Amelia Bedri, MHSA, NCQA's Senior Content Engineer, Product Management, spoke about the NCQA health equity work with emphasis on NCQA’s health equity accreditation.
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Rhode Island is currently experiencing a historical shortage of primary care providers, leading to challenging workloads for current teams and obstacles to finding care for patients.
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CTC-RI launched a new Project ECHO® Program series in March: “Approaches to Dementia Care: Building Blocks for Becoming Age-Friendly.” Our first session, “Better Patient Care with an Age-Friendly Approach,” presented by Ana Tuya Fulton, MD, FACP, AGSF, provided the 30+ participants with strategies to help learners deliver care aligned with the age-friendly approach. Ashley Butler, RN, BSN from
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.
