The December Clinical Strategy Committee meeting brought together 46 attendees for a comprehensive session featuring a presentation by Cory King, OHIC Acting Health Insurance Commissioner, who presented insights into the All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) Model.
In December, around 50 attendees joined our Team-Based Care meeting focusing on safe sleep. Margo Katz, MA, RIDOH Program Manager for Safe Sleep and Substance-Exposed Newborns, provided an overview of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID), including common causes, state data, and evidence-based recommendations for safe sleep and related products.
This month's fourth session of our train-the-trainer series for the Demographic Data Collection Pilot, featured presentations from experts Luisa Cardenas and Farah Kader of the New York Academy of Medicine and Westchester County Department of Health.
As we continue to spotlight the importance of health equity in primary care, we recognize the important contributions that our health plans make in advancing and supporting this work. UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Rhode Island was recently awarded Health Equity Accreditation by NCQA.
Quality health care has been historically unequal, often depending on a population’s race, culture, religion, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, geography or language. Health equity is a commitment to provide high-level care to all populations and to remove obstacles and disparities in the health care system.
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.