Improving Population Health / Reducing Low-Value Care in Primary Care through Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) or Professional Use of Continuous Glucose Monitoring (proCGM)
In 2022, disruptions caused by COVID-19 continued to persist and create barriers to essential preventive healthcare services. Therefore, the Medicaid Pediatric Healthcare Recovery Program provided another round of payments to pediatric and family medicine practices.
Nelly Burdette, PsyD, Assoc. VP, Integrated Behavioral Health, Providence Community Health Centers and CTC-RI Sr. Dir. Integrated Behavioral Health, presented "It’s all about the Relationship: How Connection in Primary Care Occurs Among Team Members” at the July Best Practices in Team-Based Care meeting. Dr.
CTC-RI/PCMH Kids, with funding from UnitedHealthcare and the RI Department of Health, is pleased to offer two (2) pediatric and family medicine primary care practices the opportunity to apply for funding to participate in the 15-month DULCE learning collaborative. (Sep 2022 – Nov 2023)
CTC-RI hosted the kickoff of our Best Practices in Team-Based Care meeting on July 19. In this meeting, Nelly Burdette, PsyD, Senior Director, Integrated Behavioral Health, Providence Community Health Centers presented on the importance of relationships and connections in primary care teams.
Recent accomplishments, from the Transition of Care from Adolescent to Adult Healthcare Initiative were shared at the June Nurse Care Manager (NCM) / Care Coordinator Best Practice Sharing meeting, with a focus on the important role NCMs and Care Coordinators play in the process.
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.