CTC-RI is excited to kick off the project, Implementing Primary Care and Pharmacy Strategies to Improve Care for Patients with Diabetes. The project is a partnership with University of Rhode Island (URI) College of Pharmacy and Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH), with funding provided by UnitedHealthcare and RIDOH.
CTC-RI is excited to launch an ECHO® program to increase practice learning on healthy sleep across the age span in pediatrics, “Optimizing a Behavioral Health Approach to Children’s Sleep in Pediatrics”. With funding provided by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island, this ECHO® program is supporting practices in a twelve-month series of didactic training and case-based learning.
This month, practices met to kick off the Rhode Island Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Learning Collaborative, funded by RIDOH and CDC. The practices learned about the national and state prevalence of CVD and discussed important social determinants of health related to CVD.
At our June Breakfast of Champions meeting, Susanne Campbell, RN, MS, PCMH CCE, moderated a session on Adapting Practices to be More Friendly to Neurodiverse Patients. Ariana DeAngelis, M. Ed., from The Autism Project spoke about approaching neurodiverse patients across the age-span.
Our June Clinical Strategy Committee meeting will bring together partners from Bailit Health to review the Rhode Island AHEAD Model Application, to discuss RI’s progress and next steps.
The CTC-RI Board of Directors enjoyed a special networking and dinner meeting in May with guest, Richard Charest, R.Ph., MBA, Secretary, RI Executive Office of Health and Human Services. President Peter Hollmann, MD introduced Secretary Charest who then addressed the Board members with remarks on how his office is working to advance primary care in Rhode Island.
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.