June 2024
RI MomsPRN Quality Improvement Initiative
CTC-RI, together with the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) and the Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS), invited our fourth cohort of RI MomsPRN practices to participate in a perinatal quality improvement initiative after a successful statewide call for applications.
Best Practices in Team-Based Care Webinar: Healthy Happy Teams
Join CTC-RI for this month’s session on Best Practices in Team-Based Care, focusing on creating healthy and happy teams within the primary care healthcare setting. This webinar will feature Kristin David, Psy.D., CTC-RI Practice Facilitator for Integrated Behavioral Health and content expert in healthy team functioning. Dr.
EOHHS Secretary Charest Speaks to CTC-RI Board of Directors
The CTC-RI Board of Directors enjoyed a special networking and dinner meeting in May with guest, Richard Charest, R.Ph., MBA, Secretary, RI Executive Office of Health and Human Services. President Peter Hollmann, MD introduced Secretary Charest who then addressed the Board members with remarks on how his office is working to advance primary care in Rhode Island.
Clinical Strategy Committee: June and July 2024
Our June Clinical Strategy Committee meeting will bring together partners from Bailit Health to review the Rhode Island AHEAD Model Application, to discuss RI’s progress and next steps.
June Breakfast of Champions: Adapting Practices to be More Friendly to Neurodiverse Patients
At our June Breakfast of Champions meeting, Susanne Campbell, RN, MS, PCMH CCE, moderated a session on Adapting Practices to be More Friendly to Neurodiverse Patients. Ariana DeAngelis, M. Ed., from The Autism Project spoke about approaching neurodiverse patients across the age-span.
Project Kickoff: RI Cardiovascular Disease Learning Collaborative
This month, practices met to kick off the Rhode Island Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Learning Collaborative, funded by RIDOH and CDC. The practices learned about the national and state prevalence of CVD and discussed important social determinants of health related to CVD.
Optimizing a Behavioral Health Approach to Children’s Sleep in Pediatrics ECHO® Program
CTC-RI is excited to launch an ECHO® program to increase practice learning on healthy sleep across the age span in pediatrics, “Optimizing a Behavioral Health Approach to Children’s Sleep in Pediatrics”. With funding provided by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island, this ECHO® program is supporting practices in a twelve-month series of didactic training and case-based learning.
CTC-RI selects practices and launches Diabetes / Chronic Kidney Disease Learning Collaborative
CTC-RI is excited to kick off the project, Implementing Primary Care and Pharmacy Strategies to Improve Care for Patients with Diabetes. The project is a partnership with University of Rhode Island (URI) College of Pharmacy and Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH), with funding provided by UnitedHealthcare and RIDOH.
Quarterly DULCE Learning Collaborative Meeting
This month, CTC-RI hosted our quarterly DULCE Learning Collaborative with approximately 25 participants.
CTC-RI Announces Agenda for Annual Conference
CTC-RI’s annual conference on October 31, 2024 at the Crowne Plaza offers enriching learning opportunities across key tracks: health equity, priorities in population health, best practices in Behavioral Health (IBH), and improving child/family health. We are thrilled to share our
Save the Date for PCP-Specialist Forum
SAVE THE DATE - September 13, 2024, 7:30 - 9:00 AM
Improved Patient Care and Lower Costs Through Better Primary Care-Specialist Alignment
Please join our discussion on improving collaboration and communication between primary care and specialty groups across systems of care in Rhode Island. Learn about and discuss:
Primary Care Should Support the AHEAD Model
The Task Force on Primary Care Workforce Development heard a presentation this month on the AHEAD Model from Elena Nicolella of the Rhode Island Health Center Association. The presentation focused on the benefits the AHEAD Model would afford to primary care. If accepted to Cohort 3, Rhode Island could realize $12 million in funding for a two-year planning period. The multi-year implementation p
2024 legislative wins for primary care
Thanks to our legislative leaders, champion legislators Sen. Pamela Lauria and Rep. Kathleen Fogarty, and the amazing advocacy of our primary care community and supporters, this 2024 General Assembly session had some important wins for our primary care workforce!
Monthly CBO Spotlight: Parent Support Network of Rhode Island
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 the Parent Support Network of Rhode Island, dedicated to behavioral health.
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.