Commissioner King on New Regulations to Strengthen Primary Care

The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) will begin accepting applications for its new Primary Care Training Sites Program on March 24. The Primary Care Training Sites Program was established by the legislature in July 2024.
In March, we had an engaging Best Practices in Team-Based Care session: "Lessons Learned: Integrating Community Health Worker Billing into Pediatric Primary Care”. Our expert panel shared lessons learned and strategies for having the clinical, IT and billing staff work together to design and implement templates and workflows to bill for community health worker services:
In February, CTC-RI hosted the final learning collaborative session for the "Delivering Age-Friendly Care" project. During this session, participating practices shared their progress, including PDSA cycles and case studies, and noted their progress in summitting applications for Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Level 1 or Level 2 Age-Friendly Recognition.
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.