CTC-RI hosted its quarterly Breakfast of Champions Meeting this month focused on the crucial topic of gender-affirming care with distinguished speakers Dr. Jason Rafferty and Dr. Amy Nunn, with over sixty attendees.
The Clinical Strategy Committee meeting in November, attended by over 50 attendees, focused on lessons from Rhode to Equity and Community Health Worker (CHW) billing. We heard from RIDOH and EOHHS on the Rhode to Equity initiative, focusing on the project framework and how teams worked together to bridge clinical and community gaps.
CTC-RI is excited to kick off our new project this fall, Expanding Pediatric Integrated Behavioral Health Capacity. This is supported by funding from Blue Cross Blue Shield of RI and Point 32 Health|Tufts Health Plan, and is a collaboration with CTC-RI and the Foundation for Integrated Care (FIC).
The second webinar in our train-the-trainer series for the Demographic Data Collection Pilot was held in November. Focused on Demographic Data Standards, Natasha Viveiros and Jennifer Etue from PCHC delved into a discussion of the 1997 OMB standards, current state, and the future 2023 OMB-Proposed Race and Ethnicity Stratification.
The Next Building Block QI initiative, offered in collaboration with RIDOH and URI Geriatric Education Center, focuses on two components: 1) provide practices the opportunity to develop a plan and test the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) 4M approach to age-friendly care and 2) implement a performance improvement plan that measures identifying caregivers of patients with dementia, pro
The CTC-RI Team-Based Care group gathered in November for a presentation from the RI Geriatric Education Center (RIGEC) when Mari Dias, Ed.D. focused on Supporting Older Adults through Grief and Loss. The 130 meeting attendees were invited to reflect on the causes of grief, cultural ideas of death and mourning, and the neurological responses to a loss.
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.
