We'd also like to give a special thanks to our departing institutional board member, Matthew Collins, MD, MBA, who served as Executive Vice President/Chief Medical Officer at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of RI. Dr. Collins' leadership and guidance has inspired us to provide more effective care for our patients and families.
March Breakfast of Champions: Weight Management and Advancements in Obesity Treatment
On March 10th, 2023 at 7:30am, 90 individuals attended CTC-RI’s quarterly Breakfast of Champions Meeting which focused on weight management and advancements in treatment in obesity, including new medications and community based interventions.
In February, the 2nd Healthy Tomorrows learning collaborative cohort, consisting of 4 pediatric practices and 4 Family Visiting agencies, met to share success stories, accomplishments and opportunities for continuing to improve. During this past year, these practices and family visiting agencies developed an intentional process to support care coordination and communication to link families wit
The Developmental Understanding and Legal Collaboration for Everyone (DULCE) and Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (ECCS) learning collaborative met this month to continue learning about the DULCE approach and increase practice knowledge on strengthening families through the Family Visiting program.
Our final Asthma Essentials ECHO brought together 36 participants and was facilitated by Pano Yeracaris, MD.
Our February Clinical Strategy Committee meeting focused on LAN social risk adjustment & community resource platforms. Craig Jones, MD, Primary Care Collaborative, presented on the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network’s (HCPLAN) creation of the Health Equity Advisory Team (HEAT) to advance health equity.
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.