Practices will want to Save the Date for the November 7 Learning Collaborative: “Primary Care Works: Effective Strategies to Improve Population Health and Patient Activation”. Peter Anderson MD from Team Care Medicine will be one of the featured keynote presenters.
CTC arranged to have NCQA come to Rhode Island to provide training on the 2017 NCQA training. There were 108 people who attended the “Introduction to 2017 NCQA Standards” session on July 17-18 and 93 people who attended the “Advanced Concepts in NCQA” on July 19. In total, CTC was able to provide attendees with a registration cost savings of $132,465.00 as a result of being able to price the
CTC welcomed 26 new practice sites at the July 20th Orientation Program including 14 adult practices and 12 PCMH Kids practices. . New practice sites received an Orientation Resource Manual that they can use to assist them with meeting the Service Delivery Requirements.
At the July Practice Reporting Committee meeting, Pano Yeracaris, MD CTC Chief Clinical Strategist presented the adult CTC primary care practice all cause ED and IP utilization results (all cause ED for the June 2014-15 to June 2015-2016 time period (insert link Claims Data Collection and Analysis)).
The CTC Board of Directors is pleased to announce that the following primary care practices have been approved to join CTC-RI for the July 2017 expansion:
Adult Practices
After piloting a successful Community Health Teams initiative for more than three years, CTC was well-positioned to apply for a unique grant opportunity with the State to expand the work of Community Health Teams and Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment (SBIRT) screening for substance use disorders and mental health disorders in Rhode Island.
The mission of the Care Transformation Collaborative 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.
