The December Clinical Strategy Committee (CSC) concentrated on national and statewide data integration strategies. Two experts presented on how to use data to inform population health and deliver actionable information to providers.
January’s Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) meeting was focused on CTC-RI’s Pediatric IBH program. Liz Cantor, PhD reviewed project expectations and screening results, highlighting the tremendous performance practices achieved for adding and improving screenings for behavioral health conditions within pediatric primary care practices.
Our PCMH Kids January Stakeholder meeting focused on the tremendous work being done by primary care and the RI pediatric community to meet the needs of children and families impacted by the COVID-19 epidemic. Drs. Flanagan and Lange kicked off the meeting by recognizing Dr. Clyne’s dedication and years of service with the RI Department of Health.
The Rhode Island Geriatric Education Center presented Part 2: Geriatric Education Series on dementia. Part 1 of the Geriatric Education Series, The Aging Brain: Signs and Symptoms of Cognitive Impairment was presented at the November NCM/CC Best Practice Sharing meeting.
Thank you to all who joined us at our December 10 Breakfast of Champions. We know that workforce wellbeing and resilience is top of mind for Rhode Island practices. Nearly 100 attendees joined last month’s panel, which featured local, regional and national presenters who shared their organizational approaches to provider and clinical team wellbeing.
The Rhode to Equity Initiative teams have been hard at work for over 6 months focusing on their respective aims within their communities and utilizing the pathways to population health framework.
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.
