CTC-RI, in partnership with the RI Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP-RI), recently held a 3-part virtual series on recognizing and reducing burnout among pediatric providers. We asked Allison Brindle, MD, FAAP President, AAP-RI, to reflect on why identifying and addressing burnout and building resiliency among pediatric providers is a priority for AAP-RI.
Dec 9 Breakfast of Champions will be part 2 of a focus on unconscious bias.
Because COVID continues to impact practices and patient care, the State Fiscal Year 2023 budget included additional funding for the Medicaid Pediatric Healthcare Recovery Program. Medicaid, in partnership with CTC-RI, is offering a 12-month incentive program to improve immunization and lead screening results and improve capacity to assist children and families with behavioral health needs.
CTC-RI’s 3-year pediatric integrated behavioral health (IBH) learning collaborative ended in April. Funded by the RI Foundation, Tufts Health Plan, and UnitedHealthcare, its goal was to help 8 practices establish an IBH program to better identify, assess, and treat behavioral health (BH) concerns in their pediatric population.
The Rhode Island Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP-RI), in partnership with CTC-RI through American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding, invested in exploring how burnout can be identified and resilience can be grown among medical providers who work with children and adolescents.
CTC-RI and PCMH Kids held the quarterly Improving Child Health in RI meeting on October 6 (formerly known as PCMH Kids Stakeholder Meeting). Drs.
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.