News and Articles
Grants Available to Support Non-Profits at Forefront of COVID-19 Response
The Rhode Island Foundation and the United Way have partnered to offer grants for non-profits who are impacted by COVID-19 and who offer direct services to RI communities.
RI Dept. of Health Selects Community Health Teams for Expansion Pilot Program
RIDOH is partnering with CTC-RI to provide project management support and practice facilitation services to support two community health teams (CHTs), including South County Health/Wood River and East Bay Community Action Program, in a pilot program aimed at improving the clinical outcomes for patients with hypertension, diabetes and/or at high risk of cardiovascular disease.
March Quarterly Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) Committee Meeting
At the March 12th Quarterly IBH Committee meeting, Jill Welte, MD from Coastal Medical presented on Coastal's Pediatric Model with Psychiatry, explaining their focus on their high need, high opportunity patients and sharing key success factors and lessons learned.
Take the RI Health Equity Challenge: Opportunity to Address Systemic Inequities to Improve Health for People with Diabetes, and At-Risk for Adverse Outcomes from COVID-19
The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH), in partnership with CTC-RI, will be offering a five-month learning collaborative whose aim will be to build clinical-community linkages across primary care clinics and Health Equity Zones (CBOs) to improve population health for people with diabetes who have significant equity challenges, and who are at higher-risk for COVID-19.
CTC-RI Board of Directors Addresses Connection between Health and Housing
At the February 2020 CTC-RI Board of Directors meeting, there were a number of presentations around the vital role that access to safe, stable, and affordable housing plays in ensuring good health for children and families. Of the many social determinants of health, housing stability is among the most basic and influential.
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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.