On May 30th, the American Academy of Pediatrics RI Chapter hosted the final meeting for the PCMH Kids Adolescent Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Learning Collaborative at the Warren Alpert Medical School. This learning collaborative would not have been possible without the support and funding from Tufts Health Plan and the AAP Healthy Children Grant. Drs.
The CTC-RI Board of Directors is pleased to announce that it has approved 9 pediatric primary care practice sites to participate in the Pediatric IBH primary care program. This IBH expansion, funded by Rhode Island Foundation, Tufts Health Plan and UnitedHealthcare, serves ~40,000 kids and an average Medicaid population of 52% with some sites as high as 80-90% Medicaid.
Practice Reporting and Transformation Updates
The June CTC Clinical Strategy Committee meeting included these most recent presentations: Stephen Kogut, PhD MBA RPh and Emily Patry, MS on “Empowering the Safe, Effective and Efficient (S-E-E) Use of Medication in Older Adults”; Dr.
Presentation at International Conference of Practice Facilitators at Baltimore, MD, June 26-27 “Expanding the reach of practice facilitation: Lessons learned from inter-organizational collaboration” , Suzanne Herzberg PhD, Megan Fallon, MS, RD, Susanne Campbell RN MS PCMH
The RI Office of Health Commissioner, as part of the 2019 Transformation Plan, has created a task force to examine obstacles to implementing integrated behavioral health (IBH) in primary care with the intent of developing recommendations to help inform state policy decisions.
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.