CTC-RI’s September Clinical Strategy Committee meeting provided an engaging presentation and discussion around Primary Care Capitation. The meeting focused on the challenges and strategies for adopting primary care capitation across a larger portion of patients while also learning about how systems of care have positioned themselves for primary care capitation in global risk contracts.
Linda Cabral, MM, CTC-RI Senior Program Manager recently had the unique opportunity to attend the Camden Coalition’s annual conference, Putting Care at the Center and to share the work of the Rhode to Equity (R2E) project.
CTC-RI and RIDOH's Diabetes, Heart Disease and Stroke Program (DHDS) kicked off the final year of the Care + Community + Equity (CCE) program. At this Best Practice Sharing meeting, enrolled practices reviewed their quality improvement plans for the upcoming year.
On September 22, CTC-RI kicked off its first ECHO® training series on the topic of Pediatric Weight Management. Staff from 7 selected pediatric practices participated in this meeting. The meeting began with an overview of the ECHO program and review of expectations. It was then followed with a didactic presentation from Vania Kasper, MD on the Epidemiology of Obesity (AAP guidelines).
CTC-RI just launched its third Pharmacy Quality Improvement Initiative following the success of its last, which worked to reduce preventable hospitalizations and emergency department usage. Medical Associates of Rhode Island was among the practices that participated in 2021 to reduce preventable hospitalizations and ED usage through team-based care.
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.