Nelly Burdette, PsyD, Assoc. VP, Integrated Behavioral Health, Providence Community Health Centers and CTC-RI Sr. Dir. Integrated Behavioral Health, presented "It’s all about the Relationship: How Connection in Primary Care Occurs Among Team Members” at the July Best Practices in Team-Based Care meeting. Dr.
In 2022, disruptions caused by COVID-19 continued to persist and create barriers to essential preventive healthcare services. Therefore, the Medicaid Pediatric Healthcare Recovery Program provided another round of payments to pediatric and family medicine practices.
Improving Population Health / Reducing Low-Value Care in Primary Care through Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) or Professional Use of Continuous Glucose Monitoring (proCGM)
CTC-RI is offering another round of practice facilitation training for behavioral health clinicians (psychologists, therapists, social workers, and nurses). Those who are interested in helping organizations and primary care teams develop their skills and processes to integrate behavioral health services into their practice environment are encouraged to apply by September 16.
On September 9, 7:30am, CTC-RI will host Robert T. Jones to talk about unconscious bias in healthcare. Mr. Jones is a multifaceted and competent consultant in the inclusion and diversity / organizational effectiveness industry.
In an informative Clinical Strategy meeting, system of care leaders, practice leaders, provider and health plan representatives heard from a panel on Perinatal Health In Rhode Island. Facilitated by Pat Flanagan, panelists included:
As a program coordinator, Edyth supports CTC-RI’s efforts with integrated behavioral health, improving team-based care, and partnering with community health programs. Edyth earned her BA in psychology from Framingham Stat
On June 28, the RI MomsPRN program kicked off a 3rd learning collaborative in which 9 practices came together to discuss q
This year’s legislative session ended in late June and finalized the RI State budget for FY23 (July 2022-June 2023). Both the legislative package and the budget included increased state support for child and family health. Among the measures passed, we’d like to highlight the following four which have the potential to impact access and quality, improving child health in RI.
CTC-RI/PCMH Kids, with funding from UnitedHealthcare and the RI Department of Health, is pleased to offer 2 pediatric and family medicine primary care practices the opportunity to apply for funding to participate in the 15-month DULCE learning collaborative.
Rhode to Equity recently held its year 2 kickoff meeting. SME ideas and topics were discussed and teams worked in their dyads to strategically think about how to structure their dyad meetings and what they wish to achieve using Google Jamboard.
CTC-RI is offering an opportunity to have a casual Zoom conversation with our Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) practice facilitators, Dr. Liz Cantor and Dr. Kristin David. This is an opportunity for IBH clinicians (Psychologists, Therapists, Social Workers, and Nurses) to connect with other IBH professionals, to discuss IBH best practices, challenges, successes, and more!
As CTC-RI recently wrapped up its pediatric integrated behavioral health (IBH) initiative, we connected with one practice leader, Nathan B. Beraha, MD, of Anchor Medical Associates in Lincoln, to hear more about his team's experience with pediatric IBH.
OHIC continues to focus on implementing initiatives to promote primary care, including through patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs). OHIC requires commercial health plans to provide supplemental payments to primary care practices that meet OHIC’s three-part definition of PCMH to help finance their PCMH operations. The three-part definition includes requirements related to:
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.