On January 17, CTC hosted two trainings by Colleen Labelle, MSN, RN-BC, CARN, Director of Boston Medical Center's Office-Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT) program. The first training was for nurse care managers involved with medication-assisted treatment for addiction disorders. Through funding from the RI Dept.
The American College of Physicians and CTC have entered into a pilot program as they work together to offer RI primary care and specialty practices the opportunity to enroll and participate in ACP's High-Value Care Collaborative (HVCC) Learning Program.
Please register and attend the CTC Quarterly Breakfast of Champions. All Clinical Practice Champions and practice site clinical and administrative leaders are expected to attend.
Suzanne Herzberg PhD, MS, OTR/L, Director of Transformation at Brown Primary Care Initiative, presented at the International Conference on Practice Facilitation Tampa, FL in December. Her presentation looked at how practices can use NCQA as a framework to improving care delivery, beginning with staff communication and structure, and pointed to two CTC sites as examples.
Adult and Pediatric CTC practices reported out on their clinical performance using the updated measurement specifications. Practice Reporting co-chairs, Andrea Galgay and Patty Kelly-Flis, reviewed
CTC, in partnership with Healthcentric Advisors, provided Nurse Care Managers (NCMs) with an opportunity to complete a Diabetes "Train the Trainer" Program at the January 15th NCM Best Practice Sharing Committee meeting. Participants received a Diabetes Toolkit with resource materials developed by the Greater Providence Coalition's Medication Safety Workgroup.
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.