CTC's Quarterly Breakfast of Champions meeting is being held on February 8th at 7:30am. This is an important point in time for primary care in Rhode Island and for the CTC and PCMH-Kids program, and the involvement and input from all CTC practices is critical. Specifically, all clinical practice champions and practice site clinical and administrative leaders should attend.
UnitedHealthcare is providing CTC with a funding opportunity of $148,000 to support the continued development of our statewide nurse care manager core curriculum workforce development program.
Adult CTC practices will start reporting on the HEDIS 2019 controlling high blood pressure measure (blood pressure control defined as 140/90 for adults age 18-85) beginning 1/15/19 for timeframe 1/1/18-12/31/18. The previous measure (control defined as 140/90 for adults 18-59 or patient with diabetes 18-85; 150/90 for patients 60-85) has been retired effective 12/1/18.
In case you missed it, December's edition of the Rhode Island Medical Journal featured an exciting special section highlighting the great work of PCMH-Kids, with members of the PCMH-Kids leadership team and practice community as contributors.
The Care Transformation Collaborative of Rhode Island has worked with more than 100 pediatric, family medicine, and adult primary care practices throughout Rhode Island. Through this work, we have established a track record of health care transformation success, and are now excited to offer help to other organizations desiring specific goals.
Jointly provided by CTC and Brown University Medical School, our CTC Annual Conference held on November 1st to a sold out room of more than 330 attendees! We would like to thank all who attended to discuss and learn ways in which local primary care teams can identify, develop, and utilize comprehensive strategies to improve care and lower costs.
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.