CTC-RI offered the GLearn Nurse Care Manager Core Curriculum for the fifth time this year. Nineteen learners representing thirteen different practices from across the state completed this year’s program. Learners represented a wide range of experience levels; some learners were brand new to nurse care coordination while others had years of experience.
Immunization and Lead Screening
Congratulations to the practices that are participating in the Year 2 Medicaid Pediatric Healthcare Recovery Program who continue to demonstrate continued improvement in improving child health as demonstrated with increased childhood immunizations and lead screenings rates.
CTC-RI and PCMH Kids welcomed pediatric practices and stakeholders to the quarterly Improving Child Health in RI meeting to review ongoing projects, review telehealth updates, and Medicaid updates. 8 current PCMH Kids projects were reviewed, including the Medicaid Pediatric Healthcare Recovery Program. Reid Plimpton, MPH, from the Northeast Telehe
The Health Transitions of Care (HTOC) learning collaborative, funded by RIDOH and Tufts Health Plan, met in March to share successes and barriers in improving care coordination for youth that are transitioning from pediatric to adult care. All HTOC cohort 2 practices successfully have identified and transferred 5 patients from pediatric to adult care and continue to engage patients in the trans
CTC-RI launched a new Project ECHO® Program series in March: “Approaches to Dementia Care: Building Blocks for Becoming Age-Friendly”. Our 1st session, “Better Patient Care with an Age-Friendly Approach”, presented by Ana Tuya Fulton, MD, FACP, AGSF, provided the 30+ participants with strategies to help learners deliver care aligned with the age-friendly approach. Ashley Butler, RN, BSN from St
CTC-RI is excited to announce a funding and training opportunity to increase pediatric integrated behavioral health (IBH) capacity in RI for up to 8 RI-based practices. This project aims to increase the capacity of RI pediatric providers and IBH programs by training Community Health Workers (CHWs) in behavioral health care coordination and providing support to a practice’s IBH team.
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.