Spotlight: Catherine Hunter, LCDP, SBIRT Project Director, BHDDH
How did the launch and 4-year operation of the SBIRT program help support the state?
How did the launch and 4-year operation of the SBIRT program help support the state?
CTC-RI hosted its quarterly peer learning best practice sharing meeting in November. Neil Sakar, President & CEO of the Rhode Island Quality Institute, along with Rob McConeghy, Health Data Analyst, and Sarah Eltinge, Health Data Science Manager, led a discussion on hypertension and hospitalizations using data from the RI Health Information Exchange.
The RI Maternal Psychiatry Resource (RI MomsPRN) Program, in partnership with CTC-RI, sponsored the October “Cannabis Use in the Perinatal Period” learning session.
At the September RI MomsPRN learning collaborative, all 9 Cohort 2 practices shared their challenges and successes encountered while implementing universal screening for anxiety, depression, and substance use disorder amongst their perinatal patients.
The September Clinical Strategy Committee (CSC) meeting featured a special Regional Team Component of the Community Health Team (CHT) Hybrid Model – Addressing Health-Related Social Needs (HRSN) for All Rhode Islanders.
In September, the RI Health Insurance Commissioner Patrick Tigue, MPP presented an overview of OHIC’s behavioral health (BH) policy reform and regulatory enforcement to the CTC-RI Board of Directors.
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.