CTC-RI, in collaboration with RIGEC, is launching a new ECHO® learning series focused on best practices for dementia care using the 4M framework: What Matters Most, Medications, Mentation, and Mobility.
75 participants participated in the January Best Practices in Team-Based Care webinar during which nurse care managers presented their capstone projects and shared real-life patient case examples that illustrated the impact that the GLearn Core Curriculum Training Program had on improving their abilities to support patients with complex needs in primary care. Congratulations to Kerri Walsh, RN
The 5th session of the Addressing Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) in Primary Care Think Tank was held in January.
The goals for the quality improvement project “Implementing Primary Care and Pharmacy Strategies to Improve Care for Patients with Diabetes” are to help primary care practices to improve the screening and treatment of patients with diabetes, and to detect diabetes-related eye and kidney disease earlier in patients and to help patients improve glycemic control. The
February is American Heart Month, a great time to focus on heart health. Heart disease is the #1 cause of death in RI, but small steps can make a big difference. Here’s what can help this month:
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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.