The CTC-RI Board of Directors is pleased to announce that it has approved 9 pediatric primary care practice sites to participate in the Pediatric IBH primary care program. This IBH expansion, funded by Rhode Island Foundation, Tufts Health Plan and UnitedHealthcare, serves ~40,000 kids and an average Medicaid population of 52% with some sites as high as 80-90% Medicaid.
Practice Reporting and Transformation Updates
The June CTC Clinical Strategy Committee meeting included these most recent presentations: Stephen Kogut, PhD MBA RPh and Emily Patry, MS on “Empowering the Safe, Effective and Efficient (S-E-E) Use of Medication in Older Adults”; Dr.
Presentation at International Conference of Practice Facilitators at Baltimore, MD, June 26-27 “Expanding the reach of practice facilitation: Lessons learned from inter-organizational collaboration” , Suzanne Herzberg PhD, Megan Fallon, MS, RD, Susanne Campbell RN MS PCMH
The RI Office of Health Commissioner, as part of the 2019 Transformation Plan, has created a task force to examine obstacles to implementing integrated behavioral health (IBH) in primary care with the intent of developing recommendations to help inform state policy decisions.
Barb Resnick, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, professor of nursing at the University of Maryland and past president of the American Geriatrics Society was the featured content expert speaker at the 4th Advance Directive Collaborative meeting held on 6/19/19 for the 9 practices/organizations that are participating in the State Innovation Model (Model) funded initiative. Practice nurse care ma
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.