MLPB hosted the fifth and final Phase II Health-Related Social Needs Learning and Action Lab session in January. The group of 25 participants, including older adults as well as healthcare and social services providers, reviewed the Phase I key takeaways, the three Phase II presentations, and broke into groups to reflect on what they learned and how they might use it.
The CTC-RI Primary Care Workforce Task Force is seeking support for its strategic roadmap report, “Primary Care Access for All: A Strategic Roadmap for Patient Access and Primary Care Workforce Capacity Building.” The report presents recommended goals, objectives and action steps to help build primary care wo
In a recent clinical strategy meeting moderated by Pano Yeracaris, MD, MPH, CTC-RI Chief Clinical Strategist, prominent speakers delved into the transformative landscape of primary care reform.
The Healthy Happy Teams project reached the halfway point for Cohort 2, and so CTC-RI hosted a midpoint meeting this month. The participating practices shared their topics for the quality improvement project with a special highlight on Brown Medicine Warwick with their Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) project.
CTC-RI hosted another session of the Foundational Training for Community Health Workers (CHWs), in partnership with Team UP (Transforming and Expanding Access to Mental Health Care in Urban Pediatrics) and the Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute at Brown University.
Over the last twelve weeks, CTC-RI with funding from UnitedHealthcare and RIDOH, offered sixteen nurse care managers and care coordinators the opportunity to complete a standardized evidence-based training program where they learned and applied key patient-centered medical home care management concepts within their primary care practice settings. In January, around thirty attendees joined our
In January, CTC-RI kicked off its pilot nursing student program. Four students were placed in primary care practices as part of a pilot project between Rhode Island College of Nursing and CTC-RI which is designed to introduce senior nursing students to the nurse care manager role in primary care.
On January 31, 2024, Care Transformation Collaborative of Rhode Island kicked off its second asthma quality improvement initiative, this time focusing on strengthening partnerships with pediatric practices and school nurses.
CTC-RI proudly presents the opportunity for primary care practices to apply for the 2024 Demographic Data Collection Quality Improvement Initiative, made possible with generous funding from UnitedHealthcare and Rhode Island Foundation.
On March 8, 7:30AM, CTC-RI will host the quarterly Breakfast of Champions meeting. The focus of this meeting will be on the Rhode Island Life Index. This has important implications for the primary care landscape of the state, as well as aspects of health equity.
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.