The Rhode Island Business Group on Health (RIBGH) hosted a "Food As Medicine" event at Plant City Providence this month, featuring nationally-renowned experts in the field of plant-based nutrition to prevent and reverse chronic disease. Neal Barnard MD FACC, President of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Sandra Musial MD, FAAP, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Plant Docs, a
CTC-RI is excited to announce the new project and Call for Applications for the “Implementing Primary Care and Pharmacy Strategies to Improve Care for Patients with Diabetes” project. The goal of this two-year learning collaborative is to improve screening rates and management for patients with diabetes for earlier detection of diabetes-related eye of and kidney disease.
Celebrating Progress: One Year of CHW Roadmap Journey
Since its inception a year ago, the Community Health Worker (CHW) Roadmap project has been a beacon of collaboration and progress in Rhode Island. Spearheaded by RIDOH and its partners, CTC-RI has supported this initiative that has worked to elevate the role and impact of CHWs across the state.
CTC-RI recently conducted a call for abstracts for its annual conference, "Investing in Primary Care & Health Equity", and the response was fantastic with 22 submissions received for 12 sessions! Submissions ranged from topics on autism, integrating community health workers into primary care settings and new technology for behavioral health.
In April, CTC-RI hosted its asthma quality improvement (QI) initiative learning collaborative meeting focusing on strengthening partnerships with pediatric practices and school nurses.
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.