CTC-RI and PCMH Kids, in collaboration with UnitedHealthcare and RIDOH is pleased to announce that the following practices have been invited to join the 2023/2024 Pediatric/Adult Primary Care Health Care Transfer of Care Quality Improvement Initiative:
CTC-RI is improving Population Health / Reducing Low-Value Care in Primary Care through Professional Use of Continuous Glucose Monitoring (Pro CGM). The final year of the Pro CGM project is focused on sustainability and spread of the program. Practices enrolled in the initiative presented their plans to spread beyond the pilot practice site and how they plan to sustain their efforts.
Our primary care transformation efforts often include the support and partnership of community-based organizations (CBOs) statewide. CTC-RI is spotlighting a different CBO each month to recognize and appreciate their work in our communities. This month, we're spotlighting Amos House.
MLPB hosted the fourth of its Phase II Health-Related Social Needs (HRSN) Learning and Action Lab series this month. Guest facilitator Maureen Maigret, RN, BS, MPA talked about HRSN priority setting, and the work that has been happening in different RI settings.
The CTC-RI Team-Based Care group gathered in November for a presentation from the RI Geriatric Education Center (RIGEC) when Mari Dias, Ed.D. focused on Supporting Older Adults through Grief and Loss. The 130 meeting attendees were invited to reflect on the causes of grief, cultural ideas of death and mourning, and the neurological responses to a loss.
The Next Building Block QI initiative, offered in collaboration with RIDOH and URI Geriatric Education Center, focuses on two components: 1) provide practices the opportunity to develop a plan and test the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) 4M approach to age-friendly care and 2) implement a performance improvement plan that measures identifying caregivers of patients with dementia, pro
The second webinar in our train-the-trainer series for the Demographic Data Collection Pilot was held in November. Focused on Demographic Data Standards, Natasha Viveiros and Jennifer Etue from PCHC delved into a discussion of the 1997 OMB standards, current state, and the future 2023 OMB-Proposed Race and Ethnicity Stratification.
CTC-RI is excited to kick off our new project this fall, Expanding Pediatric Integrated Behavioral Health Capacity. This is supported by funding from Blue Cross Blue Shield of RI and Point 32 Health|Tufts Health Plan, and is a collaboration with CTC-RI and the Foundation for Integrated Care (FIC).
The Clinical Strategy Committee meeting in November, attended by over 50 attendees, focused on lessons from Rhode to Equity and Community Health Worker (CHW) billing. We heard from RIDOH and EOHHS on the Rhode to Equity initiative, focusing on the project framework and how teams worked together to bridge clinical and community gaps.
CTC-RI hosted its quarterly Breakfast of Champions Meeting this month focused on the crucial topic of gender-affirming care with distinguished speakers Dr. Jason Rafferty and Dr. Amy Nunn, with over sixty attendees.
The primary care provider shortage has been receiving much attention nationally and locally recently. The crisis is not looming--it’s here. Wait times to establish care with a primary care provider are months long. The CTC-RI Primary Care Workforce Task Force has taken steps to address the provider workforce shortage head on. Task Force members include the heads of the physician, nurse practiti
CTC-RI has enjoyed hosting student interns from Providence College (PC) for many years. The interns come from PC's Department of Health Sciences' Health Policy and Management (HPM) Bachelor of Science major. CTC-RI has provided learning opportunities to two students per year--one ea
As Rhode Island continues to face a mounting primary care workforce shortage, the state’s Care Transformation Collaborative of RI (CTC-RI) is working to pilot and advance programs that respond to the growing needs of the practicing primary care workforce.
This month at the RI World Diabetes Day conference, seven pharmacists received the Grace Diaz Blue Light award. Their remarkable leadership has spearheaded the expansion of diabetes care within their respective teams, ultimately benefitting their patients.
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.