Improving Child Health in RI Quarterly Meeting – January 2025
January’s Improving Child Health in RI meeting kicked off the year with an Early Childhood Café encompassing presentations from the following early childhood programs:
In December, 15 primary care practices participating in CTC-RI's 2024 Improving Demographic Data Collection in Primary Care to Address Health Disparities Quality Improvement Initiative came together for the final learning collaborative.
CTC-RI invites you to an insightful webinar exploring the impact of the Nurse Care Manager / GLearn training program on patient care and team-based practices in primary care settings on Tuesday, January 21, 8–9AM.
This session will delve into:
January marks National Birth Defects Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness about birth defects, promote prevention, and highlight the importance of early intervention and care. Birth defects affect 1 in every 33 babies born in the United States, making them a leading cause of infant mortality and long-term disability.
Our Sleep ECHO session was held in December with a presentation on Sleep in Middle Schoolers from Julie Boergers, PhD, and with additional time for practices to report on their quality improvement projects (Plan-Do-Study-Act). Each practice presented their plans for assessment, the results, impressions, data, and plans for the next cycle.
The 4th session of the Addressing Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) in Primary Care Think Tank was held in December. CTC-RI was joined by Central Vermont Medical Center’s Refocus on Alcohol Dependence (ROAD) Primary Care Treatment.
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.