On January 31, 2024, Care Transformation Collaborative of Rhode Island kicked off its second asthma quality improvement initiative, this time focusing on strengthening partnerships with pediatric practices and school nurses.
In January, CTC-RI kicked off its pilot nursing student program. Four students were placed in primary care practices as part of a pilot project between Rhode Island College of Nursing and CTC-RI which is designed to introduce senior nursing students to the nurse care manager role in primary care.
Over the last twelve weeks, CTC-RI with funding from UnitedHealthcare and RIDOH, offered sixteen nurse care managers and care coordinators the opportunity to complete a standardized evidence-based training program where they learned and applied key patient-centered medical home care management concepts within their primary care practice settings. In January, around thirty attendees joined our
CTC-RI hosted another session of the Foundational Training for Community Health Workers (CHWs), in partnership with Team UP (Transforming and Expanding Access to Mental Health Care in Urban Pediatrics) and the Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute at Brown University.
The Healthy Happy Teams project reached the halfway point for Cohort 2, and so CTC-RI hosted a midpoint meeting this month. The participating practices shared their topics for the quality improvement project with a special highlight on Brown Medicine Warwick with their Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) project.
In a recent clinical strategy meeting moderated by Pano Yeracaris, MD, MPH, CTC-RI Chief Clinical Strategist, prominent speakers delved into the transformative landscape of primary care reform.
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.