With funding from the State Innovation Model, Rhode Island Quality Institute is contracting with CTC to host an Advance Directive Learning Collaborative for the 10 participating organizations who will be testing the use of "KnowMyHealthRI" (KMHRI) as a registry for ensuring that
The CTC Board of Directors is pleased to announce that it has approved 9 primary care practice sites for participation in the IBH primary care program. This IBH expansion, funded by UnitedHealthcare, will include 30 providers and 70,000+ patients. The IBH program will start in February with an orientation date scheduled for February 28th.
CTC is proud to announce that, with funding from Tufts Health Plan, we have been able to extend the Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) Practice Facilitator training program. This month, CTC has accepted three more applicants to become certified IBH Practice Facilitators.
PCMH-Kids and CTC are pleased to announce that all the health plans have agreed to provide continued financial support for PCMH-Kids Cohort 1 practices.
CTC is pleased to announce it has received generous funding from Tufts Health Plan for 2019 to support the following two efforts:
Please review the final 2019 Care Transformation Plan and Alternative Payment Methodology Plan which were signed by Commissioner Ganim on January 24th.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rhode Island providers have the opportunity to participate in a 10-12 part ECHO series (free CEUs available) to advance addiction treatment in the primary care settings.
Join the Rhode Island Department of Health, Healthcentric Advisors, Patricia Chace, MD, CMD and Mary Biello, RN for a Sepsis Awareness Train the Trainer Program on February 6th from 8-10am. Registration and details can be found here.
Bailit Health Purchasing conducted an AHRQ primary care workforce study to define the composition of and costs associated with workforce models that deliver high-quality, comprehensive primary care.
Physicians and healthcare professionals interested in increasing their competency for accommodating instead of simply "helping" patients with disabilities are invited to attend this Brown Medical School program, which will be held on March 23rd in Providence from 8:30am-3:30pm. Save the date! Details to come.
The mission of the Care Transformation Collaborative of Rhode Island is to lead the transformation of primary care in Rhode Island in the context of an integrated health care system; and to improve the quality of care, the patient experience of care, the affordability of care, and the health of the populations we serve.