In July, OHIC and EOHHS, at the request of Governor Raimondo, issued one-time grant payments to pediatric primary care providers that experienced financial hardship during COVID-19, and in return asked that pediatric providers take targeted actions to ensure patients get caught up on immunizations. As a group, childhood immunizations (including lead screenings) have improved across all categori
On January 8, the Wave Two Team (East Bay Community Action Program) participated in a Momentum Session on Risk Satisfaction.
CTC-RI/PCMH Kids is hosting its next webinar in its new telehealth webinar series, "Advancing Team-Based Telehealth in RI," made possible by authorized CARES Act and UnitedHealthcare funding. The webinar will be held Tuesday, February 23 from 12-1pm.
On January 22, key stakeholders met for meeting #2 of “Building Clinical-Community Linkages” to continue discussions on a long-term payment strategy for Community Health Teams (CHTs) as a vehicle for addressing key priorities in RI to reduce health disparities and achieve population health goals.
Phase 2 of the Care Delivery Design and Community Health Project kicked off at the January 15 Clinical Strategy Committee meeting. Moderated by Pano Yeracaris MD, MPH, CTC-RI Chief Clinical Strategist, the group discussed our project plans and reviewed a fishbone
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.