At our next Breakfast of Champions meeting, on June 14th, CTC-RI will be collaborating with community-based organizations, academic and clinical partners to discuss the adaptation of primary care practices to be more friendly to neurodivergent patients.
Our upcoming Clinical Strategy Committee meetings are bringing together partners from the state, clinical leadership, and community partners to discuss important updates regarding primary care spend, RI health and business trends, behavioral health updates, and updated payment policies.
At our April Board of Directors meeting, CTC-RI reviewed the recently completed project, “Healthy Happy Teams”. This was presented by Dr. Nelly Burdette, Senior Integrated Behavioral Health Program Leader at CTC-RI and Director of Population Behavioral Health at Boston Medical Center.
The struggle to find a primary care provider or pediatrician in Rhode Island continues to worsen as providers leave practice in record numbers. Rhode Islanders have nowhere to go to get care. CTC-RI and the Rhode Ahead Initiatives are two public/private partnerships that have been working to address the crisis in access to primary care and the lack of culturally appropriate and linguistically
Our primary care transformation efforts often include the support and partnership of community-based organizations (CBOs) statewide. CTC-RI is spotlighting a different CBO each month to recognize and appreciate their work in our communities.
The April Clinical Strategy Committee meeting focused on approaches to comprehensive primary care and high-risk care management under prepayment and global risk. This presentation was moderated by Pano Yeracaris, MD, MPH, CTC-RI Chief Clinical Strategist.
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.