After a debrief on the March 4th Legislative Education Session (see a complete review of the session in this newsletter!), Taskforce members first heard from Sam Salganik, Executive Director, Rhode Island Parent Information Network (RIPIN), about advocacy efforts to expand the state’s primary care insurance rate review process proposed in the 2025 Governor’s budget. Mr.
On February 25th, CTC-RI and Foundation for Integrated Care (FIC) launched year two of the Expanding Pediatric IBH Capacity project, generously funded by Blue Cross Blue Shield of RI. We welcome 3 new practices to the initiative: Santiago Pediatrics, Aquidneck Pediatrics, and Medical Associates of Rhode Island – Bristol.
At the beginning of this month, 10 practices were selected for our Optimizing Team-Based Care initiative. This project, funded by UnitedHealthcare and in partnership with the Art of Medical Leadership (AML), extends beyond the traditional leadership-focused training to engage the entire primary care team in building collaboration, trust, and sustainable care practices.
Clinical Strategy Committee (CSC): 41 participants joined the February 21 CSC discussion on Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) and the AHEAD Model.
On March 4th members of the CTC-RI gave a presentation at the State House Library to inform state representatives and senators about the growing primary care access crisis. The session, hosted by Senator Pamela Lauria and Representative Susan Donovan, Chair of the Health and Human Services Committee, featured presentations by members of the CTC-RI Task Force on Primary Care Workforc
HOLD THE DATE: for CTC-RI’s Annual Conference November 19, 2025
On February 20, 2024, CTC-RI hosted the final Learning Collaborative session for the "Delivering Age-Friendly Care" project. During this session, participating practices shared their progress, including PDSA cycles and case studies, and noted their progress with summitting applications for Institute for Health Care Improvement (IHI) Level 1 or Level 2 Age-Friendly Recognition.
Join us on Tuesday March 18th, 8-9 AM for an engaging Best Practices in Team-Based Care session: "Lessons Learned: Integrating Community Health Worker Billing into Pediatric Primary Care”.
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.
