January marks National Birth Defects Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness about birth defects, promote prevention, and highlight the importance of early intervention and care. Birth defects affect 1 in every 33 babies born in the United States, making them a leading cause of infant mortality and long-term disability.
Our Sleep ECHO session was held in December with a presentation on Sleep in Middle Schoolers from Julie Boergers, PhD, and with additional time for practices to report on their quality improvement projects (Plan-Do-Study-Act). Each practice presented their plans for assessment, the results, impressions, data, and plans for the next cycle.
The 4th session of the Addressing Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) in Primary Care Think Tank was held in December. CTC-RI was joined by Central Vermont Medical Center’s Refocus on Alcohol Dependence (ROAD) Primary Care Treatment.
In December, over 100 providers and other healthcare professionals attended “Uncoding” New 2025 Codes for Telehealth and Advanced Primary Care Management, a webinar presented by Dr. Peter Hollmann. The session covered new 2025 CPT® codes for telemedicine and guidance for use of the new codes. Dr.
Please join us to learn more about a post-partum hypertension home monitoring program and updates to the RI Affordability Standards from the Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner (OHIC). Adam Lewkowitz, MD, MPHS, Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology will review a post-partum hypertension home monitoring program using CHWs.
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.