The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced in August that all eight R.I. Community Health Centers earned a combined $1.1 million from Health Quality Improvement FY 2017 grant awards.
The CTC Practice Reporting Committee, together with the CTC Data and Evaluation Committee, recommended changes to the 2017 Clinical Quality Measurement Specifications that have been approved by OHIC.
Primary care practices are often challenged by creating consistent processes for stratifying patients based on risk status and using the electronic health record to develop and implement standardized nurse care manager assessment and care plan templates.
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.
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.