After March Legislative Education Session debrief, Task Force members 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.
In February, CTC-RI and Foundation for Integrated Care (FIC) launched year two of the Expanding Pediatric Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) Capacity project, generously funded by Blue Cross Blue Shield of RI. We welcome three new practices to the initiative: Santiago Pediatrics, Aquidneck Pediatrics, and Medical Associates of Rhode Island – Bristol.
In early March, ten practices were selected for our Optimizing Team-Based Care initiative.
The February CSC meeting on Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) and the AHEAD Model had 41 participants. Nelly Burdette, PsyD, CTC-RI Chief Clinical Officer, presented the draft proposal and approaches for a project focused on AUD.
In March, CTC-RI members gave a presentation at the State House Library to inform state representatives and senators about the growing primary care access crisis. T
HOLD THE DATE: CTC-RI’s Annual Conference November 19: CTC-RI is thrilled to announce our Annual Conference “Advancing Primary Care: Innovating for a Sustainable Future” which will be held at the Crowne Plaza in Warwick, RI.
In February, 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 in summitting applications for Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Level 1 or Level 2 Age-Friendly Recognition.
In March, we had an engaging Best Practices in Team-Based Care session: "Lessons Learned: Integrating Community Health Worker Billing into Pediatric Primary Care”. Our expert panel shared lessons learned and strategies for having the clinical, IT and billing staff work together to design and implement templates and workflows to bill for community health worker services:
The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) will begin accepting applications for its new Primary Care Training Sites Program on March 24. The Primary Care Training Sites Program was established by the legislature in July 2024.
CTC-RI is excited to welcome Der Kue, PMP, as a Project Manager. Der brings extensive experience in healthcare operations, project management, and quality improvement.
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.
