On December 9, CTC-RI will continue the discussion on Unconscious Bias in Healthcare with Robert T. Jones, Chief Empowerment Officer of T. Lee Associates, an international education consulting company. Robert was formerly the program director for the National Conference for Community and Justice in the RI and SE New England Region.
CTC-RI hosted our 2nd Asthma Essentials ECHO this month. This ECHO aims to bring together partners from multiple learning and care communities. CTC-RI was thrilled to welcome providers, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, nurse case managers, community health workers, and school nurses to engage in the ECHO “all teach, all learn” model through didactic and case presentations.
There is a new Zoom link here for the monthly conversations with our Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) practice facilitators, Dr. Liz Cantor and Dr. Kristin David. The event will occur over Zoom, every 3rd Friday of the month, with our next meeting scheduled for November 18, at 12:00pm.
Our NCQA Behavioral Health Distinction (BH) Readiness Collaborative held their Year 2 midpoint meeting on October 27. This was an opportunity for practices to collaborate about the NCQA requirements, challenges, and successes in the path toward BH distinction.
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.