In an informative August Clinical Strategy Meeting, system of care leaders, practice leaders, provider and health plan representatives focused on the topic intitled “Community Health Workers: How Are Practices and Systems of Care Approaching Effective and Sustainable Deployment of CHW’s in the Expanded Primary Care Team?”
Panelists included:
CTC-RI proudly hosted expert Robert T. Jones to talk about unconscious bias in healthcare at the September Breakfast of Champions. Mr. Jones is the Chief Empowerment Officer of T. Lee Associates, an international education consulting company. Mr. Jones was formerly the Program Director for the National Conference for Community and Justice in the RI and SE NE Region.
CTC-RI is excited to launch Asthma Essentials ECHO and will kick off this series on October 12.
In August, Rhode to Equity invited Pablo Bravo, System Vice President, Community Health at CommonSpirit Health for its subject matter expert session.
OHIC continues to focus on implementing initiatives to promote primary care, including through patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs). OHIC requires commercial health plans to provide supplemental payments to primary care practices that meet OHIC’s three-part definition of PCMH to help finance their PCMH operations. The three-part definition includes requirements related to:
As CTC-RI recently wrapped up its pediatric integrated behavioral health (IBH) initiative, we connected with one practice leader, Nathan B. Beraha, MD, of Anchor Medical Associates in Lincoln, to hear more about his team's experience with pediatric IBH.
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.