The Tri-County Community Action Agency offers a broad spectrum of comprehensive services to those in need including, but not limited to, their Health Center (Primary Care, Behavioral Health, Dental), Head Start and Child Care, Elder Care Services, Fuel Assistance, and Food Pantry.
Congratulations to all the CTC-RI and PCMH Kids practices that successfully submitted the CAHPS provider file information.
The IBH Committee meeting is on September 12 at Rhode Island Quality Institute (50 Holden Street, Providence) from 7:30-9:00am, and will focus on behavioral health telemedicine. CODAC and Thundermist Health Center will provide information on their pilot telemedicine medication-assisted treatment program and health plans will report on their behavioral health telemedicine policies.
The Commonweath Fund has released its 2019 Scorecard on State Health System Performance, ranking Rhode Island 7th in the nation overall.
A University of Rhode Island professor has been awarded a $3.75 million federal grant to improve health services for older adults. With the grant from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration, College of Health Sciences Professor Phillip Clark is leading a team of health care professionals in a statewide initiative to develop an age- and dementia-friendly workforce to integrate
A new Milbank Memorial Fund-supported study from the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative and the Robert Graham Center estimates 5.6% of health care expenses in the US goes to primary care. This is dwarfed by shares absorbed by hospitals, other physicians, and pharmaceuticals-and by the roughly 14% of total health care spending OECD countries devote to 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.