New CTC-RI task force addressing primary care workforce crisis
Rhode Island is currently experiencing a historical shortage of primary care providers, leading to challenging workloads for current teams and obstacles to finding care for patients.
Rhode Island is currently experiencing a historical shortage of primary care providers, leading to challenging workloads for current teams and obstacles to finding care for patients.
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CTC'RI’s April Clinical Strategy Committee meeting focused on improving health equity through demographic data collection. Amelia Bedri, MHSA, NCQA's Senior Content Engineer, Product Management, spoke about the NCQA health equity work with emphasis on NCQA’s health equity accreditation.
CTC-RI will host its quarterly Breakfast of Champions Meeting on June 9 at 7:30am. Dr. Peter Anderson and Stephen Moberg, Executive VP & COO, both of Team Care Medicine, and Dr. Arnold Goldberg, Thundermist will present their progress with developing care teams using medical assistants (MA) as scribes.
This month, in partnership with RIDOH and EOHHS, CTC-RI hosted the 2nd Rhode to Equity Conference which brought together the 6 Rhode to Equity teams, state partners, managed care organization staff, community health workers (CHW) and other relevant stakeholders. Approximately 85 people attended the event.
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.