In June, CTC-RI’s Clinical Strategy Committee (CSC) hosted a session entitled "MassHealth Primary Care Health Reform & Social Risk Adjustment.” This enlightening event was a collaborative effort featuring experts who shared their invaluable insights on transforming primary care and addressing social risk adjustment in the healthcare landscape.
CTC-RI together with RIDOH/EOHHS and the CDC are pleased to offer up to fifteen (15) primary care practices the opportunity to participate in a new Demographic Data Collection Pilot Project. Participating practices will conduct a Baseline Needs Assessment and participate in a Train-the-Trainer Demographic Data Collection Best Practice Webinar Series.
With funding provided by UnitedHealthcare, CTC-RI is excited to announce a funding and training opportunity to increase pediatric integrated behavioral health (IBH) capacity in up to five RI-based practices.
CTC-RI and MLPB invite primary care practices serving older adults to participate in a Health-Related Social Needs (HRSN) Learning-and-Action Lab series. This is a two-phased initiative designed to inform and improve clinic-based HRSN screening, referral, and problem-solving strategies impacting older adults who live in RI.
On June 21, the Care + Community + Equity (CCE) program’s meeting brought together participating practices, and community experts to discuss best practice sharing. Clinical teams from Thundermist Health Center, Clinica Esperanza Hope Clinic, and Tri-County Community Action Agency shared progress and successes in their self-monitoring blood pressure and cardiovascular disease programs.
As CTC-RI works to bring industry leaders and voices to the table to collaborate and address Rhode Island's primary care workforce crisis, one important avenue to address is our pipeline for nurse care managers.
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.